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Re: languages vs dialects

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Subject: Re: languages vs dialects
From: "Terry L. Neill" <Neilltl@ptsc.slg.eds.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 14:35:04 PST
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Poster: "Terry L. Neill" <Neilltl@ptsc.slg.eds.com>


>> [...] 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.


Now-a-days, I imagine the shift would be abrupt.  What with TV and radio
tending to standardize the language.

At the Italian boarder, he would notice!

        - Anarra
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- Re: languages vs dialects
  - From: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

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