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Re: A language by any other name



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> immo vero scripsit

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nick Phillips wrote:
> > [*] By definition, the English speak English. What the Americans speak is
> > different to what the English speak. Therefore the Americans don't speak
> > English.
> 
> That would mean the Belgian would speak Belgian, right?
> 
> I doubt it...

No, Belgian would not speak Belgian, but they are "Belgian"
and thus it can be "belgian", as it were.

regards,
	junichi

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