Re: My version

From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 63341
Date: 2009-02-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> I have no doubt that some people still consider [Afrikaans] an
> extra-territorial dialect of Dutch. As my previous comments
> on the subject should have made clear, I don't consider this
> a linguistic question, and from a SOCIO-POLITICAL [emphasis added
> -- FB] point of view Afrikaans and Dutch are clearly different
> languages.

In this sense, agreed.

Francesco