--- John Cowan <cowan@...> :
> Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:
>
> > If we must insist that Scots is a dialect,
> then it is a dialect that is
> > only barely understandable to a speaker of
> the language it is suppsed
> > to be a mere dialect of!
>
> You probably couldn't understand basilectal
> Geordie either.
I found it quite understandable, actually. Try
here:
<http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/geordsound.htm>
and don't read along! The joke being the English
doctor and the Geordie fella misunderstand each
other's walk/work pronunciations.
> (If a
> language requires an army and a navy,
And I do not agree that it does!
> does that mean that Afrikaans these days is a >
dialect of Xhosa?)
As I understand it, a dialect has to be at least
related to the principal it's a dialect of.
Regardless of who has the guns. When the blankes
had all the guns, it wouldn't be called a Xhosa
dialect - why should that change now?
Padraic.
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