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Re: Merhaba (was: Re: Icelandic)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, January 10, 2004, 22:36
Trebor Jung wrote:

>Merhaba! > >*nearly falls off chair in surprise; totally shocked* > >Maltese is _not_ a dialect of Arabic - it's a separate language! That's like >saying Estonian and Finnish are dialects... > >I just can't believe this... Maltese a dialect of Arabic (or anything else)? >Just totally unbelievable... > > >
I think it's quite a reasonable statement. They've only diverged since the middle ages. It's more like saying Scots is a dialect of English.
>--Trebor [tREbor] > >
You know, Trebor is a UK brand of mint.

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