Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 16, 2003, 7:35 |
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:58:31PM -0700, Joe Fatula wrote:
> Then again, should they? I'd say that if mutual intelligibility is the
> criterion, then the various Inuit dialects/languages are separate languages.
> But my criterion would probably be whatever the speakers of that language
> tell you.
Are there no intelligibility in your criterion? What if speakers of
Objibway and speakers of Nahuatl both claimed to speak "American"? Would
that make them the same language?
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