[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

[David Gerard]

On 19 September 2010 12:42, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is normal because any standard language has different registers, the
> dialect has limited registers and in general only for daily and familiar
> use.


This, by the way, is why we don't have multiple English Wikipedias -
in the higher registers, all the dialects (which are frequently all
but mutually incomprehensible in the lower registers) converge and
educational English is quite consistent. The only major dialectic
variant is American versus British spelling, and anyone who reads one
can read and often write in the other.


- d.