Can Parent and Daughter co-exist?

[Nikos Sarantakos]

At 20:16 18/09/99 +0100, petegray wrote:
>A further example of at least an aunt and a daughter co-existing might be
>seen in the Katherevousa and the Demotike forms of modern Greek.   No one
>learnt Katherevousa as a mother tongue, but in the 60's we could hardly
>claim that it was not "Greek", just because it had no mother speakers.

>Peter

No-one learnt it by one's mother (although this cannot be known
with certainty) but everyone was being taught Katharevousa in
primary school, no?

But why do you consider it an "aunt"? Weren't they both K. and D.
daughters of the same mother?

nikos sarantakos