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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 - 08 October 2007 - Volume 06</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_k9mw@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mike Wintzer</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:k9mw@yahoo.com">
k9mw@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2007.10.08 (02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Hi all,</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>I am follwing the discussion re. LS "revival" with growing uneasiness.</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span></span></font> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Let me just take 2 examples:</span></font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q"> <div><font size="2"><span>
</span></font> </div> <div><font size="2"><span>Jonny wrote:</span></font></div> <div><font size="2"><span></span></font> </div> </span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
<font size="2"><span>So-
what medium-dialect should we call Low Saxon worth to preserve it 'as
the leading, only one' for the future? Who should make a decision about
it? Should there be any scale of values I've never heard about before?</span></font></div> <div><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" size="2"><span></span></font> </div></span></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span>trekt sik aalns naan liif, sounds simplistic, but it will, as examples demonstrate</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>(modern
Hebrew, Occitan...). Fundamental as this question is, many others have</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>to be addressed first....</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Heinrich wrote:</span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span></span></font>
</div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="#000080">We all know, what happened with "Russian" in former <font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">
<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
East Germany</span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"> , a hated subject.</span></font></font></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></span></font> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Other examples can be added, notably Irish Gaelic. One doesn't popularize a language</span></font></span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">by teaching it (only) in school. Media, admistrations etc. have to follow suit, to make a </span></font></span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">language to be revived a living language.</span></font></span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></span></font> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">
I guess what causes my uneasiness is that I
read too many "yes - but" s.</span></font></span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">
</span></font></span></font> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Greetings, Mike Wintzer</span></font></span>
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