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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Polish month names
Message-ID: <Cxw2ru.4vw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <37rkuh$23q@gordon.enea.se> <37sd7e$b8g@agate.berkeley.edu> <37up30$svk@nippur.irb.hr>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 22:07:06 GMT
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In article <37up30$svk@nippur.irb.hr> vlopina@filolog.hfi.hr (Vjera Lopina) writes:
>Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh! Serbocroatian doesn't exist. Those are two
>languages, Croatian and Serbian.

As proven by the fact that they use different month names?
Makes sense.  In exactly the same way Austrian is given the status
of a language in the  babel  package for TeX (by Johannes Braams),
because it has _Ja"nner_ where German has _Januar_ (that being
the only difference between the two).

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Oh.  <bites net.tongue>

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