Re: How close is Vietnamese to Mandarin or Cantonese?

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> A more conclusive clue is the fact that someone who speaks only Hebrew
> won't understand Yiddish at all, and vice versa, so it's *really* *hard*
> to make a case that they are the same language. What's next, Basque *is*
> Quechua?

Ah, just think what the Trask-Rosenfelder team could have accomplished!

I know Denis Giron has been here before, but I don't remember for what.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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