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Re: Serbian language

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From: Anders Thulin
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:23
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The question of whether xxx is a language or not cannot be easily
settled. One dialect of Chinese may be totally unitelligible to a
speaker of another dialect, while speakers of the different languages
Swedish and Norwegian usually understand each other.

I think a professional linguist once settled the question as follows:

	A language is a dialect with an army.

That's probably as far as we can go.

I suggest further discussions be removed from comp.text.tex and
continued in soc.culture.yugoslavia only - Serbian and Croatian are
not much of a typesetting problem.

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Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
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Subject: Re: Serbian language
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