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From: readi@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (RODERICVS READI)
Subject: Re: Lowlands language list
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readi@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (RODERICVS READI) writes:
>"R. F. Hahn" <rhahn@u.washington.edu> writes:
>>On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, RODERICVS READI wrote:

> For God's sake, what an ignorant!
> Both languages influenced one another, one of the merits of Luther was 
> that he adapted some low german words to the schemes of high german.

	Inmediately after sent I noted my error: Of course I wanted
	to write "Both dialects influenced ..."

	As someone remarked before, there is no strong border between
	language and dialect, the differentiation is left to subjective
	criteria.

	I consider "language" a more abstract concept for denoting a family 
	of dialects, a dialect is not a language of seccond class (as Mr Hahn
	seems to think), but the most concrete appearance of a language,
	as are those spoken in different regions.

	And about "low german": it is ridiculous to deny that it is german,
	the border between both dialects of the west german branch is
	in time and space difuse, they never separated definitively
	and they were always in continuous interaction.

	Rodrigo.

