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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 2 26 September 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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A dialect continuum is where
one language gradually turns into another. The intermediate stages are mutually intelligible, but people at the far ends may not be able to understand each other. It's a really common phenomenon. The smaller Romance languages do it (or did, before they started disappearing), as do English and Lowland Scotts. Anyway, here's a dialect continuum joke from the police comedy Hot Fuzz: Hot Fuzz clip on YouTube 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 2 26 September 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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HAHAH!
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