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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Polish month names
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <37up30$svk@nippur.irb.hr> <Cxw2ru.4vw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <383tdq$4p4@nippur.irb.hr>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 09:31:06 GMT
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In article <383tdq$4p4@nippur.irb.hr> vlopina@filolog.hfi.hr (Vjera Lopina) writes:
>If you believe different month names are the only difference
>between Croatian and Serbian, you are *very* wrong!

I wonder if you would claim that the differences between them are more
numerous, or more profound, than the ones between British and American
English (the standard varieties thereof, that is).

(Both `more numerous' and `more profound' are used tongue-in-cheek, as
the nature of the matter is such that any estimate must be imprecise.)

As for Serbo-Croat, one reason for me to believe in its existence is
that I have spoken it on more than one occasion; and the Serbs to whom
I spoke it acknowledged it as Serbian, whereas the Croats complimented
me on my Croatian.  My own tongue knew not the difference -- well, not
beyond some minor adjustments.

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>: Oh.  <bites net.tongue>
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>Why? I'd love to hear (or rather read) a comment.

Since you asked for it, here goes:

`How many of them did it take to write this article?'

(As seen in someone else's .signature:
 `This article was generated by an infinite number of monkeys.')
-- 
`That's yer oan problem, Judas', they telt him.  `It's nae concern tae us.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk/chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)  (The G-- G--)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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