LL-L "Language change" 2002.12.18 (01) [E]

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From: corber <corber at shaw.ca>
Subject: legislating language change


When the mennonites left netherlad after the re-formation,ending up in a
part of Poland which later became part of Prussia..They did not write their
Friesian or whatever ,but communicated in Dutch.The official language of
Prussia being German pressure was put on them to change their writing to
German.So their church  legislated  their school teaching and religious
written communication to be German which they adhered to to this day..In
Russia they were often thought of as German and suffered the consequences.
When Germany occupied their part of Russia in WW2 , she gave them German
citizenship..  Cornelius Bergen

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