LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.08.06 (05) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  06 August 2007 - Volume 05

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From: "Clarkedavid8 at aol.com" <Clarkedavid8 at aol.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.08.06 (03) [E]

I think this is not irrelevant to issues related to Lowlands minority
languages, their maintenance and activism. The "racial" issue isn't really
important. We might boil it down to saying that there is often more interest
among people whose ancestral languages they are not.  Reactions to this
among people whose ancestral languages they are tend to be mixed, and
sometimes the enthusiasm on the part of these "outsiders" is dampened by
attitudes among the actual heirs, including heirs that choose not to know or
use the languages.

R. Hahn

I think in Wales, the Englishman who learns Welsh and speaks it correctly
but woodenly is a stock figure of fun among native Welsh speakers, who even
make fun of their compatriots who have been brought up as English speakers
at home but who try to use the Welsh they have learnt at school in ordinary
conversation. North Welsh native speakers make fun of South Welsh as an
anglicisized,  bastardised form of the language.  Many native Welsh-speakers
tend to resent other people trying to speak their language and deliberately
speak very quickly to discourage them.

David Clarke

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