A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:06AM

This quote has three points: 1) all dialects are of equal linguistic validity, 2) even the standard dialect was (once) a dialect of certain people, so 3) language and power are interrelated. (sociolinguistics)

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