[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

[Mark Williamson]

The division between Serbian and Croatian isn't necessarily a barrier
to information the way this "artificial" language barrier you speak of
is. A Serb can get information from the Croatian Wikipedia if they
want without having to "learn" a new language.

2008/9/8 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/8 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
>>> Oh I don't know the level of English spoken in say Poland is quite
>>> impressive.
>>
>> So?
>
> It means that when there isn't an nationalist region to oppose a
> language which provides access to greater information and
> opportunities it's use can become widespread.
>
>
>>
>>> > (Most) human languages arose spontaneously, without conscious effort, and
>>> > so barriers among them are natural and not artificial.
>>>
>>> Serbian though is a dialect of Serbo-Croatian where the barrier is
>>> highly artificial (and people now want to divide it further with
>>> Montenegrin).
>>
>> No, actually, Serbo-Croatian is a dialect of Serbian.
>
> Sigh. Trying to claim that the Central South Slavic diasystem  is a
> dialect of Serbian is unhelpful.
>
>> And the barrier is highly non-existant.
>
> We have wikipedias in both serbian and croat. So this non existent barrier?
>
>
>>> An increasing number of languages only exist through large scale
>>> government support. Increasing levels of international communication
>>> means that we should see non major languages start to die off.
>>
>> So?
>
> I see no reason to interfere with the natural die off.
>
> --
> geni
>
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