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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by stevoski on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:04PM (#6322130)
And...we have our unavoidable example showing that any public statement on languages vs dialects becomes political and controversial.
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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by mutation on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @05:50AM (#6326508)
I am not sure what you mean. I tried to explain the situation. "Serbo-croatian" as such doesn't exist (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/535405/Serbo-Croat...). Yeah, you can mix both of them and speak serbo-croatian as a mixture of both, but people also mix english language with their mother tongues. How many kids today name their language as "croatian-english" or "german-bosnian" for example? And I heard both of these in real-life situations.
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