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You certainly wouldn’t call English a “dialect”

• Archelaos 11mo ago
  "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" -- Max Weinrich In the Yiddish original: "אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
  • exasperaited 11mo ago
    Best not to needle the Maltese about their army and navy. They are tiny but tough (and still significant). So tough that "siege of Malta" needs a disambiguation page on Wikipedia.
  • skissane 11mo ago
    Can’t read the Hebrew alphabet, but transliterated to Latin: “a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot” - I find it fascinating that despite knowing close to zero Yiddish, it makes complete sense.. well, I know a handful of German words (which covers “mit”)… and “flot” contextually makes sense as “navy”, especially if one knows English “flotsam and jetsam” (not navy but at least nautical)
• englishrookie 11mo ago
  I would certainly call it a Germanic dialect.