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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Got numbers in 280 languages, want more
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 01:46:15 GMT
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In a previous article, comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk (D. Dawbarn) says:

>Knut Felberg (felberg@online.no) wrote:
>
>: Serbo-Croatian one = jedan (Not jeden); eight = osam (Not osa)
>: And btw. it would maybe be more PC today to list Serbian, Croatian and
>: Bosnian as three separate languages. The numbers are all the same from 1
>: - 10 in all three.
	... how high do you have to count before they diverge?...
>
>I've been waiting for this one to come up. The numbers are the same in 
>all three because they are the same language, previously known as 
>Serbo-Croat. 
	...and occasionally called Yugoslav... as e.g. in a Collins 
	Phrase Book I once owned.  one could argue that *refusing* to
	call it "Yugoslav" because of the presence of Slovenian and
	Macedonian would be like refusing to call French "French"
	because of Breton and Occitan...

>As far as PC goes, I hardly think it's PC to follow the 
>usage of fascist nationalists, easily recognised by their refusal to 
>accept the identity of Serbo-Croat. 

	I feel rather liberal, sitting here tolerating the use of English
	on an American computer terminal!  And of course the Scandinavians
    	*are* in an unusually tenuous position on this sort of thing...

Liland

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