From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: I don't understand Lisp Date: 1998/09/17 Message-ID: <3115018739186682@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392012170 References: <35fb182d.86050524@news.newsguy.com> <3114753392163854@naggum.no> <3114949049958479@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Barry Margolin | What is the English that both Cockney and American English are dialects of? assuming this was as rhetorical as it seems, why is "the King's/Queen's [British] English" the _obviously_ wrong answer? | If you don't like the "dialect of X" terminology, then perhaps "member of | the X family" would be better, but in my mind they mean the same thing. it seems to mean the same thing only when X = Lisp. otherwise, it makes no sense at all to claim they are the same. English is not a dialect of Germanic, but it is a member of the Germanic language family. neither is English a dialect of Indo-European. #:Erik -- ATTENTION, all abducting aliens! you DON'T need to RETURN them!