A language is a dialect with an army and navy: Revision history

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11 February 2024

• curprev 13:3113:31, 11 February 2024‎ Equinox talk contribs‎ 9,018 bytes −6‎ quips are witty by definition (sort of) -- anyway, Wikipedia is meant to avoid a "point of view" undo

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3 September 2023

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9 April 2023

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4 July 2022

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10 April 2022

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28 January 2022

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26 January 2022

• curprev 14:0914:09, 26 January 2022‎ Macrakis talk contribs‎ 7,365 bytes −13‎ Changing short description from "Facetious demarcation between language and dialect" to "Facetious characterization of dialect" (Shortdesc helper) undo

29 October 2021

• curprev 23:1023:10, 29 October 2021‎ Hawkfrost000 talk contribs‎ m 7,378 bytes +1‎ The page number in the Thomas Burns McArthur text is incorrect. McArthur quotes Randolph Quirk on page 205. https://books.google.ca/books?id=wQucr4-cllwC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=thomas+mcarthur+%22language+is+a+dialect+with+an+army+and+a+flag%22&source=bl&ots=9ybqm93KKW&sig=ACfU3U0sNQcQdtbZzgzhRqVkHonPQ7zphQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibyIzC3fDzAhWhJDQIHbDBAXcQ6AF6BAgfEAM#v=onepage&q=thomas%20mcarthur%20%22language%20is%20a%20dialect%20with%20an%20army%20and%20a%20flag%22&f=false undo
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6 July 2021

• curprev 16:4716:47, 6 July 2021‎ Macrakis talk contribs‎ 7,350 bytes +10‎ restore characterization as a facetious quip -- as supported by multiple RS already cited in the article undo

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6 November 2020

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20 October 2020

• curprev 01:0501:05, 20 October 2020‎ Barenchi2 talk contribs‎ m 7,054 bytes −10‎ →‎Weinreich: I changed "quip" to "aphorism"; the word "arbitrary" to "conventional"; and omitted the word "facetious" as a characterization of the adage. All of the changes help to make the entry more neutral in tone; otherwise, it sounds a lot like Wikipedia does not assess the observation as worthy of serious consideration as a way of understanding how people have distinguished among different languages, especially in the European context. undo Tag: Visual edit

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31 August 2020

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27 July 2020

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20 June 2020

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6 June 2020

• curprev 15:1715:17, 6 June 2020‎ Pathawi talk contribs‎ m 7,131 bytes −29‎ →‎Other mentions: Original writer was correct in stating that there was no solid evidence (Laponce attributes this to "la pétite histoire"). I've removed the "citation needed" tag, rephrased the paragraph to make it more clear, & redone the citation to include page no. undo

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8 November 2019

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16 September 2019

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• curprev 01:1101:11, 16 September 2019‎ Macrakis talk contribs‎ 7,234 bytes +10‎ clarify that it's not a serious adage; the refs that were there were useful because it is apparently controversial whether it's humorous (see Talk) undo

15 September 2019

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