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Re: [Ltru] a modest proposal...



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
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