Re: Branch of English or a Separate Language?

From: Aidan Kehoe (kehoea_at_parhasard.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:53:15 +0100

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> _Any_ discussion of "language vs. dialect" is not a question of
> linguistics, but of politics.

Ah, be exact, Peter. It's a question of both. Don't you think Franco would
have promoted Basque as a dialect if he had a chance of being believed?
Abstand vs. Ausbau, etc. 

-- 
Like the early Christians, Marx expected the millennium very soon; like
their successors, his have been disappointed--once more, the world has shown
itself recalcitrant to a tidy formula embodying the hopes of some section of
mankind. (Russell)

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