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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>On 3/29/07 1:57 PM, "Fitch, Kristine L" <kristine-fitch@uiowa.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>My master’s degree advisor said it best: “A dialect is what somebody else <BR>
speaks.” Also “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.” <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>“A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot.” —Max Weinreich<BR>
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Ron<BR>
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