Re: dialectal diversity in English

Quoting Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>:
> If a German from Ost-Friesland and an Austrian from
> Steiermark
> can't understand each other but insist they both speak Deutsch, then
> it's
> one language.  If they insist that they're speaking two different
> languages,
> then they're two different ones.
Perhaps unnecessary to point out, but this breaks down in instance when one side
claims to speak the same language as the other, but the other not to. Can't
think any any really good example right now, but Serbo-Croatian comes to mind.

                                           Andreas

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