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Article #3370Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory)
From: Kurt Swanson
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00
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Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@francenet.fr> writes: > Well, the same examples have to be told again and again to open the > eyes of the ignorant : Speaking of ignorant... > - where I, as a french speaker, make the difference between a "fleuve " and > a "rivi๏ฟฝre", the english-speaking person will only see a "river" English has many words for moving bodies of water: stream, brook, creek, rivulet, ... > - where the english, german, french ... speakers make a difference between > blue and green, the breton speakers only have one word . I highly doubt they have no distinction between what we call blue and green. Similiarly, upon immediate classification, most Swedes would call certain colors red, which English speaking people would call orange. This doesn't mean Swedes can't say orange (brandgul, orange). > - and so on ... And so on... -- Kurt Swanson, Department of Computer Science, Lund University. Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se (http://www.dna.lth.se/home/kurt/)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public From: kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) Subject: Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory) Date: 1996/02/10 Message-ID: <kurt.823974013@bavur> X-Deja-AN: 138742499 references: <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <823128131snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <4f4uno$96r@kielo.uta.fi> <4f8s0u$5s3@chleuasme.francenet.fr> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Lund University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union