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<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 07 August 2007 - Volume 09</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.08.06 (06) [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;"><font color="#000000" size="2">...</font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div> Let me throw a few possibilities your way. These are based on my own observations. (The names assignations are mine.) <br>
<ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic tribalism </span>("Language is part of 'us against them (the power majority and outside)'.")</li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic exclusivity
</span>("It's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">our<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span> language, our secret code, and nobody else should touch or even use it.")</li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Linguistic chauvinism</span> ("Only we are the keepers of the proper language.")<br></li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic purism</span> ("Only <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we
<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>can use the language <span style="text-decoration: underline;">properly </span>because
we live and grew up in the God-given place and belong to the
appropriate ethnicity and class." If it turns out that there is a
transported enclave somewhere else, this tends to be shrugged off as
impure or debased, thus as irrelevant. The assumption here is that
language should never change.) </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic racism</span> ("No one that doesn't look like us can possibly speak like us and understand our culture.")</li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Linguistic insecurity </span>("So it happens to be what I leaned as a child. But ...")<br></li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic self-loathing</span> (<span>"What
good is this language these days anyway? It would be an albatross
around the children's necks. Away with those outsiders that want to
turn things around!") <br></span></li></ul><ul><li><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguistic suspiciousness</span> </span>("They used to despise us and used to want to get rid of our language and culture. So what are they up to, those outsiders
<span>trying to learn it</span>? Are they trying to ridicule us")<br></li></ul></ul></div>I
wonder if this was an issue when Norman power over England had
withdrawn and scores of English, part-English and Norman people
switched from their native French to the reemerging, albeit still
teetering English language that was very much susceptible to further
French influence. If it was an issue, I suppose that, had the other
camp come out victorious, the English language would now be extinct
rather than globally dominant. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Just my thoughts
...</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;">
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">The
ironic thing is that much of the "English Oppression" in other parts of
the United Kingdom had little to do with the English anyway. The
Plantagenets who exerted English rule over Wales were no more English
than Charles Aznavour. The various later linguistic and cultural rules
applied were under the administration of the United Kingdom, in which
representatives from the other countries are proportionately more
influential than English members.</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Most
English people, during this period of imposition, were largely unaware
that there was such a thing as Welsh, and had more than enough to worry
about in their own lives without telling other people what to speak.</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">It
should be noted that the English last had any specific say in what
happens in England in 1707 (and they didn't have much then, as they
weren't a democracy in anything like the modern sense). Unlike Wales,
Scotland or Northern Ireland, England has no Assembly or Parliament,
and any suggestion that this should be recitified is vigorously opposed
by all leading parties.</div><span class="sg">
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates</div></span><br>
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