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Question: Should German count as only one language?
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Teddy (IDS Legislator)
nickjbor
Junior Chimp
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« on: December 21, 2011, 01:58:44 AM »
No, on the grounds that it's not.

If I pick up 12 newspapers and it's about 12 people standing in 12 parts of German speaking countries, each newspaper will tell me that the people around them are speaking "German". If there was a need to classify the languages differently for mass consumption, it would have been done already.


put another way - no we should not on the grounds that we have not yet - IE it should not be a conscience decision, it would be an unconscience one.
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Teddy (IDS Legislator)
nickjbor
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,200
Canada


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E: -1.42, S: -1.91

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 02:12:09 AM »
No, and it's not, which is why we have Mandarin and Cantonese
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Teddy (IDS Legislator)
nickjbor
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,200
Canada


Political Matrix
E: -1.42, S: -1.91

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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2011, 12:55:19 PM »
Hence the wise-ass links in the answer Tongue
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