Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2003, 13:28 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> Dialects are a strange thing: even in a country as small as the Netherlands
> without barriers of communication, people manage to have enough dialectical
> differences that they reach unintelligibility!
I suppose the SIL folks, splitters that they are (taxonomists come in two subspecies,
splitters and lumpers), would call this a separate language.
BTW (and I send this to the list because I see it popping up repeatedly):
the adjective from "dialect" is "dialectal"; "dialectical" is the adjective
from "dialectic", as in "dialectical materialism".
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John Cowan
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