Re: Branch of English or a Separate Language?

From: Evan Kirshenbaum (kirshenbaum_at_hpl.hp.com)
Date: 10/20/04


Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:23:01 -0700


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

> (not that a FAQ is legislation -- there's some other sort of
> foundational document that lays out the scope of a newsgroup)

I'm not sure that sci.lang ever had a charter. It was a renaming of
the old net.nlang group, and I'm not sure there was ever anything more
than the "Natural languages, communication, etc." description.

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