LL-L: "Language policies" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 19.MAY.1999 (01)

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From:  gdeutsch at estec.esa.nl
Subject: Language policies

Thanks Jan (Parsley) for your clarifiying note!

>I can't believe one Geordie ...
>would e-mail another in Geordie, simply because there's no Geordie
>orthography as such, and it would be confusing therefore to use
>anything other than standard English.

But I think it would be possible, and the situation would not be so much
different to the referred situation of 'Wienerisch' as it might appear.
Most people reading text written in this - their own -  dialect have to
read it often loudly in order to be able to understand what is meant.
In this way it would probably work with Geordie or any other variation.

cheers

Georg

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