LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.02.08 (04) [E]

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08 February 2006 * Volume 04
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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.02.06 (08) [E]

Dear Sandy:

 Subject: LL-L "Language varieties"

> However, what I don't agree with is the idea of experts knowing better
> than people who have been brought up in the culture.

Seconded & reseconded, & not just this subject but all the other points you
made.

Mind you, many 'cultures' are the product of the constraints of a
restrictive environment. If these constraints are removed, the resulting
enrichment of the lives of its subjects may lead to the rapid and voluntary
extinction of an otherwise rich & worthy endowment. This is a tragic
counterpoint to the meeting of colonial & indigenous cultures as well. And
similar stupid things have been said, and even legislated, against 'natives'
as against the deaf or the blind, or other disabled in the community. Oh,
well.

> For example, Hannah Aiken, editor of the "Forgotten Heritage" collection
> of fairy stories in Scots, speaks in her introduction to the book as if
> Scots was a form of difficult English. She says that although R L
> Stevenson wrote a long short story, a book of poetry and much dialogue in
> Scots, he must have found it difficult to speak, and could never have
> written a novel in Scots.

Peace to her, & all the great Aiken clan of writers; she may be an expert
collector of Scots fairy tales, but nothing else in that tongue. We aren't
all polymaths, but sometimes rich insights may be brought from an outsider's
perspective..

Noo, quit burlin!

Yrs,
Mark 

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