Re: dialectal diversity in English

Daniel Ryan Prohaska wrote:

>Mutual intelligibility/incomprehensibility has never been a criterium
>for deciding wether a specific variety is a dilect or a separate
>language in comparison to another variety.
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So what is? It can hardly be one with an army/navy, because what's
Basque a dialect of then?

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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