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From: deb5@harper.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: origin of tedesco
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In article <2fb_9604020010@TeleMatique.org>,
George Jenner <george@TeleMatique.org> wrote:
>G'day
>
>Been lurking for a week and thought I should enter with 
>a quibble :-)
>
>DVB> empire as "French-speaking" and the north as "German-speaking" had the
>DVB> map turned sideways (due south of Aachen is Luxembourg, which is German-
>DVB> speaking to this day) and has forgotten about the existence of several
>
>Luxembourgers occasionally get mildly cranky with people who don't think
>Luxembourgish is a language in its own right.  Everyone can speak
>German (and French and probably English).

	Luxemburgers should just cope, the way Schwyzert"utsch speakers
do.  It's not incorrect to say that most Swiss speak German even if most
Germans couldn't understand a single phrase they say in informal conversa-
tion.  If they want people to recognise L"etzebuergesch as a "language in 
its own right", they should use it in more domains.  Even Irish, with a 
fraction of the number of speakers that L"etzebuergesch has, has more 
official status in the EC and recognition beyond it.




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