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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 04 February 2007 - Volume 10<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>
><br>Subject: Websites<br><br>Gabriele:<br><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> Maybe the most interesting comparisons could go
on the anniversary site, for those people who could scream at the thought of
having to read the thrilling tale of that wretched wren over and over...
;-)</span><br></span></font><br>Sure! Are you volunteering to coordinate it?<br><br>Jacqueline:<br><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" id="nonprop">> Re Poussie Baudrons: Thanks Sandy and Ron for this wonderful story.
<br>Maybe when "we" have milked the Wren for all that it is worth, we can switch to that tale of animal stealth. </pre>Again: Sure! <br><br>And ... "milking wrens" ... Does this go with "herding cats"?
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<br>Resources are approached and used for various purposes and with various expectations. Obviously, anyone expecting the wren story to be a thrilling novel of epic proportion, worthy of being considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature, will be sorely disappointed. Clearly, it is meant to be a manageable text corpus for those genuinely interested in language or those at least entertained by it, especially as far as linguistic diversity is concerned, including varieties that are rarely or never encountered elsewhere. In this it is no different from the more frequently encountered Lord's Prayer and "The North Wind and the Sun" collections, to name but two. As such, it is appreciated by many. The site is still enjoying increasing interest, judging by the growing number of repeat visitors (currently an enormous surge from Turkey for some reason) and judging by the number of sites that link to it.
<br><br>So the 200th translation has come and gone (no thanks to <span style="font-style: italic;">you </span>lot). And so the parade, long though it may be, continues, will do so as long as there are floats and as long as crowds line the streets, never mind the occasional sourpuss face in that crowd, or the occasional dark cloud overhead and the odd raindrop or two on the parade.
<br><br>Anyone still wondering what we're talking about ought to check it out:<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a><br><br>
Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>
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