Criteria for languages?

[John Cowan]

John Cowan scripsit:

> An argument of the form "in case X, we should do D, therefore in case Y,
> we should do D as well" depends on whether X and Y are truly parallel,
> and the burden of persuasion is with the believer, not the skeptic.

I dropped a line here.

That is, the fact that Latgalian has been treated like Latvian is not
evidence that Walliser German has been treated as Swiss German or German.

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