P.S. Further to Saturday evening's tired and emotional discussion about language, yesterday Soft[REMAINDER OF NAME REDACTED] asked me the difference between a language and a dialect. I couldn't remember any linguistic definition but I suggested it was probably largely a political distinction. So I just checked and that seems to be about the size of it -- or as one linguist once put it, "A language is a dialect with an army."
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