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From: peter@statsci.com (Peter Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Serbian & Croatian
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kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha) writes:

>In article <3tgurl$psk@viking.mpr.ca>,

>Hm. I think it's like saying because Low German speakers
>live in a 'central position' there is mutual intelligibility
>betw. LG and Swedish or Danish, LG and say OberOestereich 
>German or English.

>Paul JK.

Oesterreich? That's about as far away as one can get from Low German,
linguistically and geographically.

But maybe that was his point.

Peter Schumacher
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