Arabic-L:LING:Army Quote query

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Date: 29 Sep 2000
From: "A. FERHADI" <af3 at is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Army Quote query

"Language is a dialect with an army and a navy?"

Does anyone know to whom the quotation above is attributed and where
it was said? I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.

--Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University
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