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   L O W L A N D S - L * 12 March 2006 * Volume 07
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Lowlanders,

We are fast approaching our 11th anniversary in May of this year, and it is 
high time for some increased action on the anniversary project front:
http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/

Lately it has only been Mathieu van Woerkom, Mike Szelog and I that have 
been working on it and have recruited outside contributors.  It's time for 
the rest of you to spring into action, if not as translators or narrators 
then as facilitators (e.g., recruiting outsiders or helping in other ways). 
Please write to me if you can help and if you have something new for us.

On the following page you can see what is new:
http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/index.php?page=new

Most recently, I added a table of contents in German.  I did so because it 
has come to my attention that quite a few older interested people in Germany 
have a hard time finding their way around, though they like looking at the 
translations and listening to the sound files.  Many people of that 
generation have little or no English and rely on others for direction to 
specific pages.  Though parallel indices in Dutch, Scandinavian, etc., would 
be welcome, I assume a need for them is not as great, as English proficiency 
in the relevant countries is generally high even among the elderly. 
Parrallel indices in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, 
Czech, Japanese and a few others are probably more important in this regard. 
If any of you could volunteer to translate the introduction and a few key 
words, we'd happily post them and could take care of any remaining language 
names after that.

Introduction (rough text template):

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We are presenting to a Low Saxon (Low German) fable translated into numerous 
languages and dialects. Some of them come with sound recordings.

Up to now many friends all over the world have participated in this effort. 
You, too, are invited to participate by sending us further translations 
and/or sound recordings. Please get in touch with us either by clicking 
[here] or by writing to the addresses <lowlands-l(AT)lowlands-l.net> or 
<sassisch(AT)yahoo.com> (in which case you need to write @ in place of 
(AT)).

Almost all pages here are offered in English. But one can enjoy the 
different translations and sound-recordings even without any English or with 
very basic English proficiency.

This version of the table of contents should help {put your language 
here}-speaking visitors without a much English to find their way around this 
site.

{symbol} This symbol marks languages and dialects that belong to the actual 
range of topics of Lowlands L.

{symbol} This symbol means that you can not only read a translation but that 
you can listen to it as well.
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Key words:

Contents (Site Map)
Initial Page (or: Front Page)
What Is Lowlands-L?
Mission
Beginnings
Reflections
People (Introductions)
Homepage
Language Samples
Contact (Language) Varieties
Constructed (or: Artificial) Languages
Extinct (Language) Varieties
About This Site
General Introduction (or: About This Presentation)
Team (or: Participants)
Help
Guests
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Folks, please remember that this site is well visited everyday and that it 
is apparently making a difference.  So here is your chance to help shine 
your bright lights where general education doesn't even put a candle.

Some of you have already promised contributions and have not yet come 
through.  No, I'm not forgetting them, so you'd better do something before I 
crack the whip more sharply.  (Why, some people might even lose their 
Hawaiian names of honor ...)

Thanks in advance!
Reinhard/Ron 

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