Mark Williamson wrote:
Languages and cultures are two very separate entities.
Distinct, perhaps, in the sense that they have different definitions that should not be confused with each other. But suggesting that languages and cultures can be cleanly separated from each other as entities is absurd.
--Michael Snow
Yes, but if you'll recall, my point in making that statement is that separate cultures does not equal separate languages. Thus, while Hui and Han cultures are very different, most of them speak the same language.
Similarly, I think that Bosnians, Serbians, and Croatians can be considered to speak the same language, and thus don't need separate Wikipedias based on linguistic criteria alone.
Milos seems to think that culture = language, and thus Bosnians and Croatians, having different cultures, automatically have separate languages.
Mark
On 13/11/05, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Languages and cultures are two very separate entities.
Distinct, perhaps, in the sense that they have different definitions that should not be confused with each other. But suggesting that languages and cultures can be cleanly separated from each other as entities is absurd.
--Michael Snow _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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