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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 - 09 July 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_k9mw@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mike Wintzer <<a href="mailto:k9mw@yahoo.com">k9mw@yahoo.com</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 "Language politics"
2007.07.07 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ron wrote</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br>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: Language politics<br><br>Thanks, Kevin and Mike!<br>
<br>Kevin, I know that "patois" does ....<span lang="it"><br>...opportunities to develop the language. <br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br></span> </div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A+ Ron, thanks!!!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Greetings, Mike Wintzer</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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: Language politics</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks for the grade, Mike.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
However, you can take away the "+" because I forgot to mention something in the last paragraph:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" lang="it">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Mike, the attitude of a native speaker you mentioned is
nothing new to me. I have come across it plenty of times in the case
of Low Saxon. Also, I have now spoken with the third Scottish person
that grew up with Scots and still refers to it as "slang." You could
take the position that this is the natural progression of language
death and "survival of the fittest." Alternatively, you could take the
position that this is the result of a strategy in which derogation
eventually comes to be internalized by the native speaker community,
which results in "voluntary" abandonment of its language (i.e., not passing it on<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> or refusing to use it</span>) -- but then you'd run the risk of being
laughed out of the room as a subscriber to conspiracy theories.
Whatever position you take, it seems to me that it all boils down to
non-recognition sooner or later bringing about language death in that
it amounts to denial of opportunities to maintain language confidence,
pride and love, leave alone opportunities to develop the language.
</span><br><br>Under "or refusing to use it" I am referring to those that at certain points in their lives decide to no longer use the language. This may be anyone that grew up with it. Very often it is young people that do this because use of the language is, by virtue of its association, disadvantageous, usually for social reasons -- is "uncool." The "uncoolness" factor tends to come in where language use is relegated to and confined within traditional culture (is thus associated with "oldies" and "geeks"). Usually the main symptom of impending language death, this confinement may then be reinforced from the outside, such as by official language texts addressing mostly seniors and by publishers rejecting literary submissions that lie outside the traditional confines. In other words, we are dealing with a vicious circle once it gets to this point of decline.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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