Jun 22 2010, 06:03 AM
QUOTE(Thinkingfox @ Mar 3 2010, 10:43 PM)
Don't get me wrong. I'm not an advocate of the authorities. But then again if we speak a language however we want, could it still be considered speaking a variation of that language? At what point do we mark the change of the variation into a new language? Who sets the rules as to whether it's a variation or a totally different language.
Maybe the wiki entry on dialects can help.I particularly agree with the following three points regarding dialects being classified as such:
# because they have no standard or codified form,
# because the speakers of the given language do not have a state of their own,
# because they are rarely or never used in writing (outside reported speech)
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