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Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by kafkaesq on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:35PM (#14456117)
No what the commenter was saying was that there are some pretty obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese (not even remotely comparable to the differences between the mainline variants of English). See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility

Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by weberc2 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:45PM (#14457856)
That's not what the commenter was saying; he was saying that the different dialects of English are one language because they're all English (one language). This is ultimately circular. I agree with his conclusion, but the distinction between language and dialect is a hazy one and his answer shined no light.
Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by kafkaesq on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:21PM (#14464171)
Well, having re-read their sentence... it definitely doesn't read that way to me.

But you can read it that way, if you want to.