Dude, let's leave it there. You have this nasty habit of turning any convo into some sort of confrontation. You have been doing that across the boards to a point that a number of posters have blocked you. Try to keep your arrogance and crassness in check. You will be a better human being if you do that.
Hilarious. And at the same time naive. Naive to believe there would be one time you would admit you were wrong.
To me a dialect describes a difference in a language that is not large enough for the speakers not to be able to understand each other. Examples speakers of English in the mountains of east Tennessee vs those of Boston. On the other hand Yourba speakers and Hausa speakers are both speakers of different languages because the wouldn't understand each other even though they may both be from Nigeria.
What part of "let's leave it there" don't you get? You must have a fragile ego. Can't help you with that.
Yeah we'll just leave it at the point were youve been proven wrong for the moment. Unlikely to change longterm but we will have to wait and see for that.
That is a fair point. Interesting case, in South Africa, they have 11 official languages, among then Xhosa and Zula. Speakers of those languages understand each other well.
Spanish and Portuguese speakers can often understand each other but we say they speak the same language. Mandarin and Fukineese speakers can't understand each other but we often say they speak Chinese. Don't look for any set and fast rules that will apply to everybody.
Have you heard people from Newfoundland speak? Or more a propos for this thread, ask your typical Parisian to understand Joual.
From what I understand they should not call what the people on Puerto Rico speak Spanish. I was heading through Virginia once & heard an accent I had never heard. I assumed it was from Smith Island even though I was no where near it.
But an accent isn't a dialect either. I guess we're splitting hairs between linguistic differences. Outright ignorance and grouping of unrelated languages is a different animal.
Spiegel daily 1 oic piece on what has changed in France "France upside down" https://daily.spiegel.de/news/parte...-ersten-wahlgang-der-parlamentswahlen-a-12043
🔴 DERNIÈRE MINUTE - Macron obtient la majorité absolue aux élections #législatives2017 https://t.co/0APKhPGO4C pic.twitter.com/JoeDfTuXZ1— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) June 18, 2017
Wow that was an ass whopping. Do the French have a Senate or upper house? If not, dude can basically do what ever he wants as long as French and EU courts don't call foul.