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 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:01 am
When I studied English at the university we had a mandatory discussion about this, but I find the subject rather interesting. One can say a lot about why a dialect is just a dialect and not a language. Take Sweden and Norway as an example - we're close neighbors and we easily understand each other if we try to. However, we think of our "dialects" as different languages. When does a dialect become a language? What do you think? Info about dialects.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:37 pm
I'd say it's a different language when you can't understand what the other person is saying anymore. Country borders usually don't really say much.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:47 am
Well, if we are to go on the wiki article you gave us, a dialect is, in laymens terms, a "new version" of an already existing language, for example, english, we have old english, modern english, and, as I like to call it "slang english", so therefore in that thought, a new language becomes a language when it can't be recognized as an already existing language
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:26 am
Old English is not a dialect zen, American English would be on the other hand.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:20 pm
im basically of the same opinion as silver
i think a dialect turns into a language when it ceases being recognizable as the same
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