Talk:The Power of Babel

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... that the author of The Power of Babel claims that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?

Source: "For McWhorter, the language / dialect distinction borders on being meaningless. 'Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but 'Swedish', 'Norwegian', and 'Danish' are really one 'language', 'Scandinavian', he writes." Holt, Jim. “Homme, Hombre, Omul.” The American Scholar, vol. 71, no. 2, 2002, pp. 142–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41213307. Accessed 18 Sept. 2024. Wikipedia Library link here

Moved to mainspace by DrOrinScrivello (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

The hook fact appears in the article and can be verified from the above JSTOR link. The article is well-written and was nominated in time. The QPQ has been completed. I think this is G2G--N Ø 11:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]