| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 8:21 |
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:>--- Joe <joe@...> scrievit: > > >>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. >> >> > >I know more Scots than Maltese or Arabic. If the >situation is comparable (keeping in mind that >English began diverging from Scots a little >sooner), then I think it safe to say that Maltese >is a language! > >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! > >Well, that depends on the dialect of the speaker in question, doesn't it?
| Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |