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Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Stephane Bortzmeyer

> A question for the linguists: I suspect that "mutual intelligibility"
> is not transitive. That is, A can be "mutually comprehensible" with B
> and B with C but not A with C. Are there documented cases of
> non-transitivity?

Certainly. There are also cases of non symmetry: speakers of A may understand B at a functional level, but not vice versa.



Peter
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