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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Chinese dialects
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In article <3lslo6$red@agate.berkeley.edu> patchew@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Patrick Chew) writes:
>>I am sure you could. Anybody in China can come up with something
>>that another Chinese cannot understand, given the large area of our
>>country.
Every Dutch dialect speaker can come up with something that most other Dutch 
speakers don't understand. That's in a country of 300 by 150 kilometers. Does 
that mean we have 200 languages here? No, just two: Dutch and Frisian.
