LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 15.JAN.2001 (03) [E]

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From: Eldo Neufeld [greneuf at interchange.ubc.ca]
Subject: Language varieties

Dear Lowlanders:

Ron wrote:  "This [Hannover Standard Language Syndrome] is not shared and
mostly not even known in other German-speaking countries, and it barely
survives in Germany."

As a Fulbrighter in the early 1960s I studied German in Lüneburg at a
Goethe Institute.  I am interestingly reminded now that the teachers at the

Institute also propagated the idea that the best German in Germany was
spoken around the Hannover area.

Eldo Neufeld
4040 Blenheim St.
Vancouver, BC   V6L 2Y9
Tel: (604) 738-4378
e-mail: greneuf at interchange.ubc.ca

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Language varieties

Eldo, you wrote (above):

> Ron wrote:  "This [Hannover Standard Language Syndrome] is not shared and

> mostly not even known in other German-speaking countries, and it barely
> survives in Germany."

I was not I who wrote this but Georg Deutsch.

Anyway, I hardly think that forty years later you would find more than a
small handful of serious "experts" who spout off such stuff and still hold
their positions.  I would be quite dismayed if I were proven wrong.

Best regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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