VS: [Ltru] Re: extlang

+1

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-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
Lähettäjä: Peter Constable [mailto:petercon@microsoft.com] 
Lähetetty: 20. maaliskuuta 2007 17:49
Vastaanottaja: LTRU Working Group
Aihe: RE: [Ltru] Re: extlang

I don't see how attacking SIL for ideological reasons has any relevance for
this list. The "linguistic illogicalit[y]" of "Serbo-Croatian" is by no
means unique to SIL or Americans.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Marion Gunn [mailto:mgunn@egt.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:43 AM
To: LTRU Working Group
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang

Exactly! It must be remembered that such linguistic illogicalities in the
Ethnologue in general can mostly only be accounted for by assiduously
studying the vagaries of American political/missionary/ overseas policies
since SIL's foundation. mg

On 20 Mar 2007, at 13:43, scríobh Peter Constable:

> ...
> Answering that involves considering what are the reasons one person 
> might have for grouping and what are the reasons that another might 
> have for splitting... The splitting in most or all cases we're dealing 
> with (where macrolanguages are involved) comes from Ethnologue....
> Note that Ethnologue has not always followed every claim of a
> split. A familiar example is Serbo-Croatian vs. Bosnian, Croatian
> and Serbian, for which E only adopted the split only in the latest
> edition....

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Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an
Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire.
* mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *

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