I have a theory about language, which I've formulated by living all over the world for 50 years. It goes like this: If you have two villages, maybe separated

I have a theory about language, which I've formulated by living all over the world for 50 years. It goes like this: If you have two villages, maybe separated by a lake, or by a mountain, and one village has goats, the other has sheep - or maybe one of these villages has brown goats and the other just white goats - or maybe there are a couple of cows in one and a coal mine at the other - then it doesn't matter how close these villages are, they will fight for their own dialect, which will eventually become a new language. (Austria problems.)