Re: Response to Dave Matuszek re: What is a language?

To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
Subject: Re: Response to Dave Matuszek re: What is a language?
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``A language is a dialect with  an army and a marine''
(Noam Chomsky) [I retranslated this phrase from german to english]
J"org Knappen.