Re: Chinese languages or language?

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:51:37 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>Nonsense.
>Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian are different languages.

>Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are different languages.

But they were not, some 20 years ago.

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