Monday, March 09, 2009

dialects...

What is a dialect actually? What is a language?

If you had some knowledge regarding languages, then you know that basically there isn't a real big difference. The real difference is that a language receives an official position as it is backed up by a government.

There is actually this saying: A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

So dialects are not stupid. As claimed recently. They still serve some purpose in society. Bridging a certain social distance is always a little better than appearing too "city-fied" too often.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like this, "A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
". But why include navy? Cannot just stop at army?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:17:00 am  

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