[lg policy] China vs. Singapore: Language and Dialect: Matter of Life and Death?

Christina Paulston paulston at PITT.EDU
Tue Aug 3 17:29:16 UTC 2010


Once again, it is not Max Weinreich; it's Antoine Meillet, but without  
the navy.  MW probably introduced the epigram and added "flot" to the  
US in a talk in NYC in Yiddish.  It has been attributed to several  
people. Christina




On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Kephart, Ronald wrote:

> On 8/3/10 11:26 AM, "Harold Schiffman" <hfsclpp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you understand to be a language or dialect?
>
> "A language is a dialect with an army and navy."  -Max Weinreich
>
> Ron
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