by Gill 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The Arabs had the Koran. The French had Les Miserables. The English had Shakespeare. The Greeks had Homer.Look at Africa. All those dialects and they are practically a stoneage people.The Hebrew language was meat and potatoes
Ha ha ha ha ha....I was waiting for your response, Narkissos
I do, however, think Victor Hugo is about as good as the French had. (Sorry, Camus).
A professor of African languages once corrected me on referring to African Languages as dialects. They are all distinct languages and only referred to as dialects by the "Superior" european colonialists.
Let me guess.....he was black?
A lot of Afro-centric professors have changed actual history to make everything African seem like pearls and diamonds. I even saw a chart in an elementary school that made Cleopatra black instead of Greek.
DIALECT....OR....LANGUAGE?
There are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, although a number of paradigms exist, which render sometimes contradictory results. The exact distinction is therefore a subjective one, dependent on the user's frame of reference.
Language varieties are often called dialects rather than languages
