Re: [tied] Ah, look at all the lonely languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:

> "None of the dialects, only pure Latin"? That's like
> saying "I don't live in any of the counties of Nevada,
> I live in Nevada itself". Wherever I am in Nevada, I'm
> in one or another of its counties, and whatever language
> you're speaking, you're speaking one of its dialects.
> The total set of dialects is the language. A dialect
> isn't an impure form of a language.

You live in both a county within Nevada plus in the state of Nevada.
You also live in a house, on a street, in a country, in the state of
Nevada which is within the United States, which is part of the world,
which is one planet in our solar sysem.....etc. The answer is "both"
one and many.

> God I hope so, or else somebody got all those inscriptions
> in marble wrong!

Could the stone carver read what he chisled? We continue writing
Roman numerals but we don't speak "Roman".

Gerry

> David