Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 22

On Sunday 09 February 2003 9:03 pm, you wrote:

>         Christian Thalmann tried to throw a monkey wrench into the
> well-oiled machinery of the beloved poll by including Swiss German as a
> "half-langauge" since he wasn't sure whether to count it as a dialect of
> German (which he also speaks) or not. This required careful thought on my
> part, but I came to the conclusion that Swiss German cannot be considered a
> separate language because, while it has an army, it does not have a navy.
Um, it does.

Rik