<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 - 12 October 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;">
=========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <
<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics"
2007.10.11 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well, I'm not against the whole Nynorsk model _an sich_, I just wanted to
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">point out a few significant differences with the Low Saxon orthographic</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
and linguistic situation. I doubt if Nynorsk allows so much variation that</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">would be needed in LS.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">How much dialectical variation can a language handle, if we still want to</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">call it ONE languages?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">E.g., only the simplest basics are so diverse already in different LS</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
regions; just speaking of LS in the Netherlands we have for "you are":</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">dou buste
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">doe bis</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">doe zis</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">do zus</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ie bint</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
ie binnen</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ij bunt</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jij bent</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jie bun</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jo binnen</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">etc.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
for "girl"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">maagien</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
wicht</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">deerne</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
etc.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">sweet good song (dim.) can be</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">zeut good leedeken [2:] [o:] [e:]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">zuut goed liedtien [y:] [u:] [i:]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">zuit goud laidje [9Y] [aU] [aI]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">etc.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There are dialects with two or with three grammatical genders, with
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">diminutives ending in -tie/tien, or -ke/ken, or -tje/tjen, with or without</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
umlauting.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Let alone the even greater differences with the LS varieties in Germany...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Of course, having one orthography for LS is technically possible, but if</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
that will bring standardisation closer?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Groeten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ingmar</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;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks, Ingmar. That's a very well thought through and compelling set of</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">arguments against using Nynorsk as a model.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Whilst I agree with you regarding orthography (and I hadn't really intended</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">to use Nynorsk as a model for orthography per se) and interrelations with</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
the power language and the absence of an international border, I still</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">think that with regard to setting only a loose grammatical and lexical
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">standard and thereby leaving room for dialectical variation in writing it</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
offers something of a model, since the main argument against a standard in</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">the Low Saxon community has been concentrating on opposition to forced
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">constraints and possible loss of diversity. This is why I brought the</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Nynorsk case up in the first place.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I(ngmar Roerdinkholder) wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ron, I think we can not really compare the Nynorsk (New Norwegian)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">situation with LS. First, Nynorsk is spoken only in one country, Norway.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">LS in Germany and the Netherlands (and some more). Second, Nynorsk</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
orthography is no big problem: it just uses the general spelling used for</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Standard Norwegian as well, which is fit for both languages. German and
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dutch have quite different orthos, and they're both not really fit for LS.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Third, Nynorsk and Norwegian are much closer to eachother than Low Saxon</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">and German. Actually, Danish and Swedish are too. Fourth, Standard
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Norwegian was adapted to be closer to Nynorsk itself in the past. Fifth,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
the West Norwegian dialects, which formed the bases for NN, are not by far</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">so diverse as the Low Saxon ones are. Sixth, Nynorsk is spoken in a
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">relatively compact area. Etc. Still, Nynorsk isn't very successful</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ingmar</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Language politics<br><br>Thanks, Ingmar.<br><br>Of course it looks weird when you pick stuff out of context. ;-) But you and I know that both you and I understand those at least within context. Right? And a uniform method of spelling would at least take the edge off. Just as an example (not necessarily the solution):
<br><br>NL:<br></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">dou buste <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">du büste</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
doe bis <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">du bis</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
doe zis <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">du sis</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
do zus <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">do s</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">üs</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
ie bint <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">y bint</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
ie binnen <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">y binnen</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
ij bunt <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">iy b</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">ü</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">nt</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
jij bent <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">jiy bent</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
jie bun <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">jy b</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ün</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
jo binnen <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">jo b</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">innen</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
D:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">du büst</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">du büst</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">NL:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">maagien <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">magyn</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">wicht <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">wicht</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">deerne <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">deerne</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
D:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Deerne</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">deyrne<br></span>Deern</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">
deyrn</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Diern</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">deyrn (~ dyrn)*<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Wicht</span> wicht<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Mäken</span> meken<br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NL:</span>
<br></span>zeut good leedeken [2:] [o:] [e:]</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">soet good ledeken
</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
zuut goed liedtien</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [y:] [u:] [i:] </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">suyt guud lydtyn</span>
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
zuit goud laidje</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [9Y] [aU] [aI] </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">soyt goud leydje (~ laydje)**
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">D:</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">sööt goot Leedje </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[9I] [OU] [EI] </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">soyt goud leydje<br></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">seut goot Leed</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[OI] [OU] [EI]</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">soyt goud leyd<br></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">seut gaut Leiding</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[OI] [aU] [aI]</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">soyt goud leyding (~ gaud layding)**<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">etc. ...
</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>* Lower Elbe dialects /eir/ -> [i:3] by rule (elsewhere [EI3] or [aI3]) -- phonetic detail not necessary to be distinguished in writing<br><br>** <span style="font-style: italic;">
oy</span> = consistently [9I] or [OI], and <span style="font-style: italic;">ey</span> = [EI] or [aI], depending on dialect</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> -- </span></span>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">phonetic detail not necessary to be distinguished in writing<br><br>Kumpelmenten,<br>Reinhard/Ron</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"></span><br></span></span>