Peter Constable 2008-05-30 23.52: >> From: Phillips, Addison >> [...] little to do with the *actual* linguistic relationship > > Well, a bit more than that: they have to be closely related. > But [...] your follow-on statement is certainly valid: > >> Many languages that do not have a macrolanguage mapping are >> actually more closely related or mutually intelligible than >> some pairs of macrolanguage related languages. Since a request for macrolanguage A can be a request for language C even if it statistically more often is a request for language B, a macrolanguage situation *requires* fallbacks between defined -- but different -- languages, whether they are inteligible or not. -- leif halvard silli _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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