Re: CHAT: Subtitles (was: Re: Proto-Romance)

[kr\IstAf r\oUt]:
> Indeed, but dialects don't care about political border, and there is a
> continuity of dialects between Flemish and Dutch. My boyfriend comes from
> the South of Brabant (at a few kilometers from the border) and his dialect
> is very close to Flemish dialects.
Which reminds me of something that has always vexed me,
though it makes perfect sense:  the way languages start and stop
at the borders of a country.  It always seemed artificial and forced
to me.

Am I alone on that one?

I suppose a lot of that has to do with the national language.
My friend, an Italian-American, has the last name "Bo" which
was presumably an Italian transliteration of their original
French surname Beau, as they were on the border and it went
back and forth.

Jake

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