December 22, 2002

Quote of the day

...it is even a bit misleading to call Standard English a "language" and these variations "dialects", as if there were some meaningful difference between them. The best definition comes from the linguist Max Weinreich: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct

Posted by Russell Whitaker at December 22, 2002 10:14 AM | TrackBack
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