false on 2 counts
1 it was a dictum by Max Nordau (it was a navy and a flag)
2 it was uttered against the revival of hebrew (not the biblical version
but modern hebrew) by Ben Yehuda et al.
(quite obviously hebrew was a language without a navy and a flag, prior to
independence, like kurdish now...)
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:41 PM John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I recall a famous question and answer.
Q: What is the difference between a language and a dialect?
A: An army.
Cheers,
John
On Apr 17, 2020, at 11:42, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:is rather artificial.
Why not to Cantonese or Sichuanese ? The domination of Mandarin in China
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