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Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, October 28, 2004, 0:59
Sally Caves scripsit:

> Which moves me to wonder whether there are any separate natural > languages that share the same name? There have to be, given how many > there are and have been in the world.
Ethnologue lists several even in the basic language list, and when you get to dialects, there are many such overlaps. -- Why are well-meaning Westerners so concerned that John Cowan the opening of a Colonel Sanders in Beijing means jcowan@reutershealth.com the end of Chinese culture? [...] We have had http://www.reutershealth.com Chinese restaurants in America for over a century, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and it hasn't made us Chinese. On the contrary, we obliged the Chinese to invent chop suey. --Marshall Sahlins