Query Details

Query Subject:	yes and no
Author:	Donn Bayard Anthropology Dept., Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	General Linguistics

Query:	In the course of the current discussion on ebonics, the famous quote on a language being a dialect with an army has surfaced several times. While on leave at ANU in 1994 I ran across the quote (usually attributed to Max Weinreich) in full, together with a transliteration from the original Yiddish. As I like most of us make frequent reference to the quote in teaching, I carefully copied down the quote in both English and Yiddish transliteration, together with its source. On my return to Otago I discovered I had lost the relevant piece of paper. An inquiry on our local NZLINGUIST listserver proved fruitless, although several colleagiues asked me to tell them if I found out. I will most certainly do this if anyone out there can supply me with the full quote in English and Yiddish and its source. Please post to my e-mail address, and I'll place it on NZLINGUIST. Many thanks, Donn Bayard University of Otago Dunedin, NZ
LL Issue:	8.83
Date posted:	23-Jan-1997
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