LL-L "Language politics" 2004.12.14 (11) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Language politics" [E]

> From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org>
> Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2004.12.14 (02) [E]
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> This summer I talked to a def guy and he told me that there are a lot of
> dialects in the sign language used in the Netherlands, - or that will
> say, there use to, since they this year or last year they decided to
> standardize the sign language and remove the dialect differences.
> Something which he didn't like at all

I'd like to know how they do that, considering that the language isn't even
written down!

How do you "remove dialect differences" from any language?

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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