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Joe Martin Date: Fri Aug 6, 1999 5:43 am Subject: proper names | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seems to me... We should all be careful about this "correct names" business. The correct name for anything is whatever the users of the language stick with-- ---and ain't nobody yet figgered out how to affect the process! _______________________________________ Joe Martin, Plain Old Ordinary Student Top Left Corner USA > > > If we accept the Ethnologue's account, then there is one Belgian > >Sign Language, but if we accept Flemish Sign Language as a separate > >language, then the proper name (in English) for the language used in the > >rest of the country would be Walloon Sign Language, or Belgian French Sign | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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