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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 07 June 2007 - Volume 07</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">MWI</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<<a href="mailto:wintzermichel@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wintzermichel@wanadoo.fr</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2007.06.01
(03) [E]</span><br><br><div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">Helge quoted:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">if the street names are in Low Saxon or Frisian than the
tourists don't understand them<br><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">What does "Helge" mean.
That's not English,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">I don't understand
it.</font></div>
<div><em><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">Mike
Wintzer</font></em></div><br><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;">
From: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Luc Hellinckx</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Beste Ron,<br><br>You wrote:<br>> Are tourists really so dumb that they can't figure out that those<br>> names on the signs are variants, that
e.g. the German variant is on<br>> top and the other variant(s) is/are below that, or the German names<br>> are in black and the X names in blue? Do tourists get lost because<br>> signs are in Italian and German in South Tyrol, or that signs in
<br>> Ireland are in English and Irish with the Irish versions in uncials?<br><br>If you're talking about pre-gps days and Belgium: Yes, tourists can be<br>that dumb. Sometimes people use maps with only one name for each city.
<br>Which is definitely a very bad idea if you're leaving Brussels, heading<br>to Rijsel (Lille in French) for example. In a small but complex country<br>like Belgium with frantic driving and numerous exits along the motorway,
<br>one can as a matter of fact get lost.<br><br>Kind greetings,<br></div><span><br>Luc Hellinckx<br><br></span>
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