From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 24116
Date: 2003-07-03
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"So was I.
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 5:50:38 AM on Tuesday, July 1, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:
>> > have a rudeness relation centered on their capital: people
>> > in the capital may be rude to people immediately outside
>> > it because of their language, they in their turn may be
>> > rude to those further out etc. In short, the rudeness
>> > relation is a partial ordering which orders the nation
>> > into concentric rings and its transitive closure defines
>> > the nation.
>> Except that it doesn't happen unless the area involved is
>> fairly small. What you get instead are regional centres
>> defining regional prestige varieties (which may of course
>> still be less prestigious than that of a national court or
>> literary centre). And of course Paris and London are
>> historically notoriously also home to very non-prestigious
>> varieties.
> Actually I was thinking France.