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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 - 10 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_bryans@lodging1.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Bryan E. Schulz" <<a href="mailto:bryans@lodging1.com">
bryans@lodging1.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"
2007.07.09 (05) [E]</span><br><br><div id="mb_1">
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<div><font face="Arial">Luc Hellinckx wrote:</font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial">All it takes is one "leader" in a clique who tags
something<br>uncool, and "de facto", by definition, it IS uncool :-D , no matter
what <br>the rest of society thinks</font>.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron<font face="Georgia" size="2"> wrote:</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">How can you come up with
"snazzy" and "trendy" publications and performances in minority languages when
it is assumed that there's no money to be made?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></div></span>
<div><font face="Georgia" size="2">This is where I always receive some of my
harshest personal criticism. My position is that the two ugliest
institutions in this matter are the American/British 'news' media and film
(Hollywood) industry. Their agenda is to make money at truly any cost even
if it means the mockery and destruction of languages or the moral
codes of ANY country. The demand for their products continues without
restraint. Curiously, they have been given a carte blanche to present any
crude, vulgar and offensive theme in their product and yet there is no refusal
from the populace that is being destroyed. A friend of mine who is an
actor and a director of films in Europe, tries continually to promote films in
languages other than English. He is not rich from his work let me assure
you.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Georgia" size="2">Thus, my point is that the 'leader(s)' in this
fiasco is the American/British 'news' media and film (Hollywood)
industry. They have indeed made billions of dollars at the expense of
almost the entire world. They truly attack, slander and mock anything
that is not to their liking including languages other than the Queen's
English. Look at some of the films, even recently, where the
people portrayed from non-english countries invariably speak in
English with a heavy British accent. Absolutely absurd! Hollywood
intentionally makes Danish, Low Saxon, Afrikaan etc... look stupid and, by
association also the people that speak these
languages. <br><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
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</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, Bryan.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">What you outlined is certainly a large part of the picture, but I don't think it's the whole picture.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">European editors routinely disregard minority languages, and even minority book publishers routinely reject works that don't fall into the clearly defined area of traditional genres and subject areas.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Perhaps this is where "movements" such as Open Source and other forms of non-commercial online activities come in, or even alternative commercial ventures.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></div></div>
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