an old item: es-americas

Jon Hanna jon at hackcraft.net
Thu Mar 25 20:04:24 CET 2004


> I grant that it's an underspecified and written-only dialect, but so is
> modern standard Arabic (some political speeches notwithstanding).

Maybe if a large enough number of people consider it to be a dialect we should
reflect that, even if they're arguably wrong (even if they're provably wrong).

-- 
Jon Hanna
<http://www.hackcraft.net/>
"
it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for
equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt


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