Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> >most of those Indic ones are only dialects of, presumeably, Hindi on
> the
> >Army-
> >and-Navy test anyway!
>
> I've not focused on Indic langauges except for Pali and Sanskrit, but
> from
> what I have read, this statement is akin to saying that all West
> European
> languages are dialects of Parisian French.
I should know better than trying to make a joke in e-mail ...

Anyway, the point is that those language counts aren't totally objective -
many European dialects could in different socio-political circumstances be
considered languages, for a start.

                                                    Andreas