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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Polish month names
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References: <37rkuh$23q@gordon.enea.se> <37sd7e$b8g@agate.berkeley.edu> <37up30$svk@nippur.irb.hr>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 04:53:54 GMT
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In article <37up30$svk@nippur.irb.hr>,
Vjera Lopina <vlopina@filolog.hfi.hr> wrote:
>Jacob  Lubliner (coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
>: In article <37rkuh$23q@gordon.enea.se> sommar@enea.se
>: (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>: >How come? Are there are any other European languages with any
>: >deviations? 
>
>: The Serbocroatian case is interesting.  Both "Latin" and "Slavic"
>: month names exist.  Serbs use the former, and Croats use the latter.
>: Osvobodjenije, the panethnic Sarajevo paper, gives both forms.
>
>Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh! Serbocroatian doesn't exist. Those are two
>languages, Croatian and Serbian. And the name of the Sarajevo
>newspaper is Oslobodjenje.
>

Who was it that coined the phrase: "a language is a dialect that
has an Army"?  The Croatian dialect of Serbocroatian has an army
now: it must be a language, then.

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