Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 15:11 |
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From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)
> >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.
>
That was a joke, I believe. You know, a language is a language if it has an
army/navy. By that logic, there are only four indic languages, Urdu, Hindi,
Bengali, and Nepali.