LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 23.JUL.2000 (03) [E]

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 From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
 Subject: Language varieties

 Ron wrote:

>Bear in mind that there are various schools of thoughts and that most
Germanistics departments still adhere to the one in which it's all
"German,"<

I'm sure you're right, but Pepijn wrote "Strictly linguistically spoken"
and
I was trying to clarify what strict _linguistic_ criteria would make Dutch
and High German both "German" and prevent them from being separate
languages. The practices of the linguistic commissars who run academic
institutions are no more relevant to this than those of the Soviet
commissars who decided which languages ethnic minorities spoke. Eller hur?

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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