Re: languages vs dialects

["Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>]

Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

Aye, Eogan wrote:

> [...] was theorized by a linguist early in this century [...]
> a native, monolinguistic French speaker, could hike from Paris to Rome
> [...] and never notice when he stopped speaking French and started
> speaking Italian.

This reminds me of a book by Sir Walter Scott (although it doesn't
quite remind me of the title) wherein King Richard Lion-Heart
of England (George Sanders) meets and converses with Saladin of
Egypt (Rex Harrison) without any language problems whatsoever.

-- Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast
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