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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Fri, 23 May 2008 23:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang
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Mark Davis scripsit:

> If you are claiming that "sharing macrolanguages" are a good or at least
> reasonable proxy for "mutually comprehensible", then we'd really need some
> figures. Especially since where the languages are not mutually
> comprehensible it will cause problems.

You ask for more than can be had, since "mutually comprehensible" is itself
very much a matter of degree.  There are dialects of English (not creoles)
that I find very difficult to understand.

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