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Article #314Re: Serbian language
From: Anders Thulin
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:23
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. -- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!loglule!prosys!ath From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.yugoslavia Subject: Re: Serbian language Message-ID: <1992Jul22.132309.15320@linkoping.trab.se> Date: 22 Jul 92 13:23:09 GMT References: <1992Jul21.194129.15557@athena.mit.edu> <21JUL92.21735997.0053@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1992Jul22.015330.3429@athena.mit.edu> Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 18