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No what the commenter was saying was that there are some pretty obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese (not even remotely comparable to the differen
by kafkaesq 9y ago
No what the commenter was saying was that there are some pretty obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese (not even remotely comparable to the differences between the mainline variants of English). See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility
- weberc2 9y agoThat's not what the commenter was saying; he was saying that the different dialects of English are one language because they're all English (one language). This is ultimately circular. I agree with his conclusion, but the distinction between language and dialect is a hazy one and his answer shined no light.
- kafkaesq 9y agoWell, having re-read their sentence... it definitely doesn't read that way to me. But you can read it that way, if you want to.