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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 - 21 May 2007 - Volume 0</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Travels" 2007.05.20 (05) [E]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: R. F. Hahn < </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Subject: Travels</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Kevin, I do like "Lowlands Wayfarer"! Thanks.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Hmm ... For me it's a bit of a toss-up between it and "Lowlands
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Trekker" ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> OK, I still like the trekker a teensy bit better, but I'd be OK with</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> the wayfarer, as long as no one confuses it with "waylayer," or with</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> "wayward" (though that would fit in certain cases). We must consider
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> folks with poor English out there. I have a hunch that loads of them</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> don't know what a wayfarer is. It's a bit "old-fashioned" (though</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> nice), isn't it?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> So what does everyone else think?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> * The Lowlands Wayfarer</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> * The Lowlands Trekker</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> How about alliteration?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> * The Lowlands Local</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> ;-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">To me a "trek" means a particularly onerous journey, at it's worst
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">perhaps through mud and overburdened with luggage (hence phrases like</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"it's a bit of a trek" and "I'm not trekking all the way up there"), so</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">the phrase "The Lowlands Trekker" has all the resonance of a lead bell.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Lowlands Sojourner? - a bit of a mouthful!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Lowlands Wanderer?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Our Lowlands?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">
http://scotstext.org/</a><br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_godsquad@cox.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Ben J. Bloomgren" <
<a href="mailto:godsquad@cox.net">godsquad@cox.net</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Travels" 2007.05.20 (05) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div><font size="2">Ron wrote:<br>>I really favor the title
"Lowlands Trekker" for the feature.<br>>What does everyone else think about
that? Any better idea? <br>>"Lowlands Rover"? "Lowlands Voyager"?
"Lowlands Paths"?<br>>"Lowlands Pathfinder"? "Lowlands Scout"?
"Trek" is after all<br>>an old Lowlandic word, isn't it?
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<div><font size="2">Ron, Elsie and all,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I was away from the computer for a week during the
transition between dorm and parents' place. I had so much email that I just
selected all and purged. What is this thread? What's goin' on?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ben</font></div></div>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Travels<br><br>Ben,<br><br>We have been talking about two new things:
<br></span><ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><li>the suggestion of organizing meetings (local or general)</li><li>a travel section as a possible new web presentation</li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Also, we have begun compiling a contact list of Lowlanders: country, city, name, e-mail address, (telephone number), comments. E-mail addresses are automatically masked in the archive, and telephone numbers will not be published, just kept on file. You can add yourself to the list by sending the required information to
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a> or <a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> under "LL-L Contact".</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">By the way, folks, like in the case of the anniversary presentation, we should invite non-members to contribute to the travel section.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Do bad about the negative connotations of "trek" for you, Sandy!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lowlands Explorer?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lowlands Pathfinder?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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