| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 17:31 |
In a message dated 1/31/2007 11:27:44 AM Central Standard Time, bpj@MELROCH.SE writes:> As Max Weinreich said (in Yiddish), a language is > a dialect with an army and a navy. Which means that > Afrikaans is now a dialect of Xhosa.--John Cowan >I think Cowan misinterpreted Weinreich, perhaps deliberately. stevo
| Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |