[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Sardininan - Sassarese languages or language and dialect?]

[GerardM]

Hoi,
I am glad to hear it. It is however beside the point.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On 9/11/07, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...having said that, Campidanese and Logudorese are both easily
> intelligible to LSC, that is its intent. Anybody who speaks
> Campidanese or Logudorese should easily and rapidly understand any
> text written in it. Campidanese and Logudorese are not _that_
> different.
>
> Mark
>
> On 11/09/2007, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/09/2007, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2007/9/11, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella at yahoo.it>:
> > > dialects, which are not). The question should be whether the 4
> > > languages and the newly created official version are close enough to
> > > be considered dialects of a single language. If that is the case, then
> > > there's only one official form of the language, and using that is not
> > > a strange thing to do.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the language committee refuses to do that because it
> > would be "unfair", despite the fact that linguists can and have done
> > studies in intelligibility for certain varieties (although, I am
> > guessing, not those of Sardinia).
> >
> > Instead, they choose to believe that anything assigned its own ISO
> > code must automatically be a separate language, and anything that does
> > not have one must be invalid and need to be deleted right away because
> > it is just a mutually intelligible dialect or a non-existant language
> > squatting a code that belongs to somebody else.
> >
> > Standards compliance is a good thing, but there is a certain point at
> > which the enforcers of the standards become rabid and they have gone
> > too far.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > --
> > Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.
> >
>
>
> --
> Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.
>
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