Paul Glasser, Ph.D., a Yiddish Linguist at YIVO, had this to say about Margo Gutstein's post in Ha-Safran:
...she's absolutely wrong about mutual intelligibility - if that were true, Czech and Slovak would be one language, Mandarin and Cantonese would be two! Aviva E. Astrinsky Head Librarian YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 avastrin...@yivo.cjh.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
