Re: [tied] Re: Creole Romance?

At 10:49:36 AM on Thursday, July 3, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> Formally Dutch and Flemish (if you want to see them as
> different languages) are Low German dialects, thus
> dialects within the German continuum, whereas Danish etc
> etc (no one will get this point anyway).

I'm only surprised that you're willing to make that point,
since it undercuts your claim that the peculiarities of
Danish phonology are a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the
language _for_Germans_.

Brian