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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Projects

Dear Lowlanders,

As most of you know, our Anniversary presentation (
http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/) is our most popular one in that it is
visited far more often than our other presentations, although the other
presentations are by no means ignored and on many days receive quite
respectable numbers of visitors. (It tends to take a while for a
presentation to increase the number of visitors as people pass on the URL to
each other and other sites link to it.)

Judging by the numbers of "hits" individual pages of the Anniversary
presentation receive on a daily basis, I am pleased to see that there is
particularly much interest in lesser known languages and in non-standard
language varieties.  People seem to jump at the opportunity to get that type
of rarely found information, which is also why quite a few educational sites
link to them.

I believe that one of our weaker areas remains Scots, and that despite our
Sandy's valiant effort to provide versions of the fable in two varieties of
Mainland Scots. Given the number of Lowlands-L members in and from Scotland
and those with connections in Scotland, I think we can do a lot better than
this. Not only would it be nice to have two or three more varieties of
Mainland Scots represented (and a Borders dialect would be nice as an
"in-between" considering our Glenn's Northumbrian version), but we should
also have a version each in Ulster Scots, Shetlandic and Orcadian.

Please bear in mind that there is *a lot* of interest in Scots out there, as
well as in various English varieties. I am pretty sure we can do more to
meet those demands.

I have received several messages asking why there are no audio files for
Scots. We really should have at least one, because people outside Britain
and overseas Scottish circle don't know what it sounds like and really want
to know. Obviously, being deaf, it's very difficult for Sandy to produce
audio files himself. I'm asking you to help with this, to make or have made
audio files for Sandy's versions and/or provide other versions with audio
files.

http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots.php
http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots-lothian.php

Audio files for the Northumbrian and Scottish English versions would be
lovely, too, of course.

http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/northumbrian.php
http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-scotland.php

As I said, interest in English language varieties is quite strong. People
all over the world study English and want to find out things beyond Standard
varieties. I am sure we can accommodate this further than we have done so
far. I strongly suggest all of you in and from English-speaking parts
consider helping us with this (and this includes our Indian, Irish, New
Zealander, Pakistani and South African friends). If you cannot produce such
versions and audio files yourselves, I'm sure you know people that can,
people you can "bug" about it.

Furthermore on the top of my extensive wish list are versions in the
following outside the Lowlands:

Alemannic (Swiss, Alsatian, Swabian etc.)
Bengali
Corsican
Croatian
Friulan
Kashubian
Khmer
Ladin
Ladino
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malayalam
Marathi
Oriya
Romany
Sanskrit
Slovenian
Luxembourgish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
and any variety of Americas and Oceania


Please consider helping with this, and please write to me if you have
questions, suggestions or promises.

Thanks in advance.

Reinhard/Ron

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