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- From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.yugoslavia
- Subject: Re: Serbian language
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.132309.15320@linkoping.trab.se>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:23:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.194129.15557@athena.mit.edu> <21JUL92.21735997.0053@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1992Jul22.015330.3429@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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- The question of whether xxx is a language or not cannot be easily
- settled. One dialect of Chinese may be totally unitelligible to a
- speaker of another dialect, while speakers of the different languages
- Swedish and Norwegian usually understand each other.
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- I think a professional linguist once settled the question as follows:
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- A language is a dialect with an army.
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- That's probably as far as we can go.
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- I suggest further discussions be removed from comp.text.tex and
- continued in soc.culture.yugoslavia only - Serbian and Croatian are
- not much of a typesetting problem.
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- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se
- Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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