No such assertion

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Larry Trask writes:

>And the assertion that linguists do not normally think at all of any factors
>beyond mutual intelligibility is beyond belief.

No such assertion was made by me.

That does not change the fact that definitions of "distinct language"
often refer only to mutual intelligibility as the core distinguisher.

Nor does it change the argument that even adding additional factors
to a definition may leave the original paradox intact.

Lloyd Anderson
Ecological Linguistics