Rusyn

[Elena Gapova]

I would say this is because the American state project emerged out of civic,
not ethnic nationalism (not "from krov' i pochva", and language as the main
marker of  "the people").

Elena Gapova

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From: colkitto <colkitto at SPRINT.CA>
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> Some more thoughts:
>
> Am I alone in insisting that "attitude" should be added as an essential
> component to the Baudouin/Weinreich definition of "language"?  I told
> graduate classes that for years.  I should have thought it was a
no-brainer,
> otherwise perhaps the Americans on this list might enlighten us as to why
> the US, which is one of the very few empires in history to have maintained
> both military
> and naval supremacy simultaneously, has not officially renamed its
language
> "American" and demanded that those of us speaking it, or variants thereof,
> outside the US follow suit?

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