How To Divide Languages from Dialects - Structure or Intelligibility?
How To Divide Languages from Dialects - Structure or Intelligibility?
Languages discussed:
Vulgar Latin, Spanish, Aragonese, Asturian, Leonese, Catalan, French, Picard, Franche-Comté, and the Celtic languages.
More on the language versus dialect question which is actually a scientific question despite what my preposterous extremely soft science says. Their insane attitude is
This is not a question for linguistics. Instead this is a political question. Thanks for completely dodging responsibility for working with an empirical question, idiots!
Just because some politicians, language activists, cultural traditions totally abuse this concept to the point of meaninglessness doesn’t mean the question isn’t an empirical one. Of course it’s an empirical question.
Q. But the Chinese say there is only one Chinese language.
A. The Chinese are lying. Like a lot of states they are doing this for a o political reason. Once politics enters the room, all the science gets up and walks out because there’s…
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