[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not understand why people who speak English equate the ability to speak
> a language with a country.. English, French, German, Dutch and many many
> other languages are spoken in multiple countries. Consequently it is wrong
> to call people who support their mother tongue nationalist.

It may not always be the case, but for smaller languages, especially
languages which are closely tied to a particular region, the two might
very well be closely connected. Just because english isn't tied to a
single country and there is no sense of nationalism in it, that does
not prove the point for all languages. It is an over-simplification to
ignore the possible ties between the two.

--Andrew Whitworth