Arabic-L:GEN:Weinreich responses

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Date: 19 Jan 2000
From: Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Weinreich response

This questions is pretty old and nobody seems to know the answer.
Check the first e-mail message on this page of the Linguist archive:
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/2/2-476.html

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Date: 19 Jan 2000
From: Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at elp.rr.com>
Subject: Weinreich response

I have always thought that the quote came from Weinreich also and it shows
up in various lists of famous quotes attributed to him. But there seems to
be some difference of opinion on that. A search of the LINGUIST list
archives at:
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist

turned up the following information:

Message 1: Re: 8.306, Sum: Weinreich quote
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 12:39:21 EST
From: Ellen F. Prince <ellen at central.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.306, Sum: Weinreich quote

Joshua Fishman (Mendele, 10/28/96) reported that the quote is indeed from
Max Weinreich and was located by Avrohom Novershtern as:

 'a shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot.'
  Weinreich, M. 1945. Der yivo un di problemen fun undzer
  tsayt. [YIVO and the problems of our time.] Yivo-bleter
  25.1.13.

Message 2: Re: 8.306, Sum: Weinreich quote
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 10:15:14 -0800
From: Raymond S. Weitzman <raymondw at csufresno.edu>
Subject: Re: 8.306, Sum: Weinreich quote

The source for the quote "a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
is not Max Weinreich but Robert A. Hall. I'm not sure what work he said
it in, but check "Leave Your Language Alone".

Ray Weitzman

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