LL-L "Language politics" 2007.10.08 (06) [E]

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From: Mike Wintzer <k9mw at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2007.10.08 (02) [E]

Hi all,

I am follwing the discussion re. LS "revival" with growing uneasiness.

Let me just take 2 examples:

Jonny wrote:

So- what medium-dialect should we call Low Saxon worth to preserve it 'as
the leading, only one' for the future? Who should make a decision about it?
Should there be any scale of values I've never heard about before?

trekt sik aalns naan liif, sounds simplistic, but it will, as examples
demonstrate
(modern Hebrew, Occitan...). Fundamental as this question is, many others
have
to be addressed first....

Heinrich wrote:

We all know, what happened with "Russian" in former East Germany , a hated
subject.

Other examples can be added, notably Irish Gaelic. One doesn't popularize a
language
by teaching it (only) in school. Media, admistrations etc. have to follow
suit, to make a
language to be revived a living language.

I guess what causes my uneasiness is that I read too many "yes - but" s.

Greetings, Mike Wintzer

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