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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 September 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><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: </span>
<span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L 'Language Ranking'</span><br><br><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>
Beste
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>similar to
Jacqueline I have to apologize for my absence- caused by technical problems in a
double sense: my PC made some trouble, and I had to build up a new IKEA-kitchen.
Even to my worst foe I wouldn't recommend to try it- sheer
horror!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>So- let me
come back again to the list with a posting perhaps to smile:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>My son (12)
and I these days talked about the different languages and his personal ranking
of them.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>I told him
that (following after LS, of course) English was my
favorite.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>He still
doesn't like it very much, but he agreed that LS was his favorite, too,
b</span><span>ut the second one would be 'Anglerlatein', literally
translated 'fishermen's Latin' (you know- that special 'sign language' with the
arms spread widely ;-))...</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span>Perhaps I
should tell you that he really likes Latin on one side ( a kind of
pervertism for my opinion, though I'm glad today that I have had the chance to
learn it, too) and that he is an engaged angler on the
other.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span><em>'Kindermund tut Wahrheit
kund.'</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="left"> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Jonny Meibohm</font></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: 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;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Language perception</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Welcome back, Jonny! Good to "see" you.<br><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Personally, I would be at a loss if I had to rank languages. To me it's like comparing apples, oranges, spinach, broccoli, parsley, asparagus, plums, cherries, potatoes and whatever. I like all of them. From day to day and from hour to hour my answer would be different. For me, switching language is like going from one room to another. Each room's interior is different and each room's window offers a view of another world.
</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<br><br>P.S.:</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Your article about the Hadeln region (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/hadeln.php">lowlands-l.net/travels/hadeln.php</a>) is being regularly visited by people from all over
the world, by the way. So you've really put the place on the world map. I suspect that what attracts many people is your angle of the origin of the Saxons that colonized Britain. Thanks for having made the effort. I wish more people would follow suit.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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