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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 - 24 September 2007 - Volume 01</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;">
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<span id="_user_Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Karl-Heinz Lorenz</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net">
Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2007.09.23 (02) [E/LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcus Buck wrote:<br>><br>> And a second thing: The Simpsons (and most English media, at least<br>> those, which are part of popular culture) don't portray Germans very
<br>> well-balanced. I fear a Low Saxon appearing in the Simpsons could wear<br>> Lederhosen or would have a little mustache ;-) Or something like that.<br>><br>Matt
Groening, creator of the Simpsons probably would create a Plautdietsch
character. Actually Homer Simpson is a Plautdietsch German, in a way.
Read about it on English Wikipedia:<br><br>"... Many younger Russian
Mennonites in Canada and the United States today speak only English.
For example, Homer Groening, the father of Matt Groening (creator of
The Simpsons), spoke Plautdietsch as a child in Saskatchewan in the
1920s, but his son Matt never learned the language. ..."<br><br>(from: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
</a>)<br><br>And about the characters in the series:<br><br>"Groening
famously named the main Simpson characters after members of his own
family: his parents, Homer and Margaret (Marge or Majorie in full), and
his younger sisters, Lisa and Margaret (Maggie). Claiming that it was a
bit too obvious to name a character after himself, he chose the name
"Bart," an anagram of brat. However, he stresses that aside from some
of the sibling rivalry, his family is nothing like the Simpsons. ..."<br><br>(<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening
</a>)<br><br>So I wonder if a Plautdietsch speaking character didn't already appear on the series.<br><br>Regards,<br>Karl-Heinz<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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