That's exactly my point, Claude. I'm glad I'm not alone here :-)


>>>huh? a dialect is "a regional variety of a language
>
>Right, but this is much more than just a few different words.
>Most of the time, people speaking the "standard" laguage hardly 
>understand, if not at all, people speaking the dialect.
>Alsacian is a german dialect, but german people simply do not understand it;
>German speaking people in Swizterland and alsacian do not understand 
>each others.
>Is American an English dialect just because they spell "color" instead 
>of "colour"? I don't think so.
>
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