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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 - 06 August 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_Clarkedavid8@aol.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:Clarkedavid8@aol.com">Clarkedavid8@aol.com
</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:Clarkedavid8@aol.com">Clarkedavid8@aol.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.08.06 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" id="mb_0">
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" size="2">I think
this is not irrelevant to issues related to Lowlands minority languages, their
maintenance and activism. The "racial" issue isn't really important. We might
boil it down to saying that there is often more interest among people whose
ancestral languages they are not. Reactions to this among people whose
ancestral languages they are tend to be mixed, and sometimes the enthusiasm on
the part of these "outsiders" is dampened by attitudes among the actual heirs,
including heirs that choose <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> to know or use the
languages.<br></font></blockquote></div>
<div>R. Hahn</div>
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<div>I think in Wales, the Englishman who learns Welsh and speaks it correctly
but woodenly is a stock figure of fun among native Welsh speakers, who even make
fun of their compatriots who have been brought up as English speakers at
home but who try to use the Welsh they have learnt at school in ordinary
conversation. North Welsh native speakers make fun of South Welsh as an
anglicisized, bastardised form of the language. Many
native Welsh-speakers tend to resent other people trying to
speak their language and deliberately speak very quickly to discourage
them.</div>
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<div>David Clarke</div></font> </div>
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