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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 March 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_altkehdinger@freenet.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm <<a href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de">
altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.03.17 (02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Beste Luc,
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Du
schreyvst:</span></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#008000">> A (slight) gender based schism
shouldn't be ruled out however in my opinion. I once read in a professional
journal that linguistic innovation > (in western societies) is more readily
adopted and transferred by women than by men, so it wouldn't surprise me that
middle class men (try > to) retain their original speech longer than women
do.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>This is my opinion and
experience, too.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>I guess women liking to
be 'trendy' in their younger years- very cautiously said: they are more
open-minded for innovations.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Many of my companions of
the same age as myself weren't allowed to speak LS within the house where mother
ruled the scene but the boys, less the girls, did with their father
and workers etc. outside. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>This heavily began, as
often mentioned, after WW II. Many female refugees from the Eastern parts of
Germany who married their partner in the West were nearly unable to
understand or even to adapt the regiolect and so Standard German
entered faster into the families than it should have done under normal
circumstances. And again- in the daily life of the males this barrier
wasn't as big as within the families; after a short time the men who worked
together daily could well understand each others dialect. (Though- the LS
dialect of Eastern Prussia gave much stuff to make jokes
about!)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>But- today the
situation seems to be different: the same,
now 'ripened' women who had been too lofty to speak LS in their youth
often are the ones to engage in preserving the small remains of what had
been an authentic language in the past, and miraculously the very young
ones who have to educate their little children more and more try to hand
down some of LS to them. It's trendy again!?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Allerbest</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Jonny
Meibohm <br></span></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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