<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 08 November 2007 - Volume 01
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: "Mark Dreyer" <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: CMT Syndrome</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
My Dierbare Vriende,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It is now my turn to ask for your prayers for my Ruth. On Friday she goes in
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">for tests for a possible nervous degenerative disease called the CMT</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Syndrome. It starts at the extremities, & her feet are already being</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
affected, that is why we went to the doctor. She is a dancer. Later it will</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">affect her hands, & she is a musician. That's all for now, but even as your
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">prayers fortified her & saved me may we hope they may again do the same for</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">us.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Yours in Trust,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark.<br><br>----------<br><br>From: "Mike Morgan" <<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">
mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Back in Touch [E+]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Goeiendag! Hi y'all!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I haven't been seen on this list in quite some time (busy? lazy?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
indifferent? ... well the LASt one most certainly does NOT apply, but</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">as for the first two ... take your pick!)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, since I am leaving Japan (after 18 years) for better parts
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(India), I needed to change my subscription email address, which lead</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">our most gracious Ron aka Reinhard (or is it vice versa?) to respond</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
in person (I had sent a faulty command to the listserv, shame on</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">me!!!) ... and I thought i would respond to HIS email through the list
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Those of you who do not remember me from my previous postings, I am</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
one of Japan's few Lowlands-L subscribers, and have posted (all too</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">infrequently, I admit) on the wonders of wasabi, the Blue Ridge
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Institute & Farm Museum in at my mother's alma mater in her home town</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of Ferrum, VA (USA), on Turkic syntax (at least that is what I vaguely</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
remember the topic being), and (most actively) orthography (in</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">specific, a friendly debate with a certain honorable Mr. S. Fleming
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">about systems of putting sign language into writing ... perhaps best</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">described as the practical approach (SF) versus the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
feet-in-the-ivory-tower, head-in-the-clouds approach (MWM) :-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
EVERYTHING, in fact, EXCEPT Lowlands languages. SHAME on me!!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Well, one of the things that motivated me to stop procrastinating and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">change my subscription address now (rather than, say, in 10 days ...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the day before I leave ) was that I am in the porcess of selecting 30</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">kgs of books to go with me as I move (the other 30 metric tons will</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
come later ... by slow boat, perhaps?), and for me the process of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">choosing what books is mostly a process of choosing what LANGAUGES.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, I have been moving books on and off my "to go with" shelves, and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I (a Slavicist by training, a Sign language linguist by profession,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
and an (Southern) Asian at heart) have been surprised to realize that</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">although some surprising languages have found there way onto the
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">shelves only later to be replaced and knocked down to the "runners-up</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">shelf), a total of FOUR Lowlands languages have stayed put (for the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
curious, they are (drumroll please!): Nederlands (Dutch), Frysk (West</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Frisian), Scots (making it FIVE if you count Lallans AND Ullans)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">separately and Afrikaans ... OH, and (sorry Sandy!) I almost forgot:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">BSL is also on the definitely to-go-with shelf (and NOT only due to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
its input on Indian Sign Language!)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">So MAYEB I will be prepared to participate more actively ...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The runners-up shelf would add to the list ... and since the "rules
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and regulations" for LowlandsList are a bit "vague" as to what exactly</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">a lowlands language is , I'll quote Ron's email to me that "</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Marathi ain't Lowlands, but nothing is too</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> far away, and Indian English is definitely Lowlands. Besides, Mumbai is home
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> to gezillions of language varieties.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, if Indian English is Lowlands, what about Tok Pisin and Bislama</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
(whcih have been trading places on the to-go and runners-up shelves)?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ron alos wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Maybe you can organize some wrens and their sounds while you are there. (The</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> LL-L hustler is never far away.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Yes, and I MAY even get around to submitting my Japanese Sign language</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">version (lazy ... I mean, busy me will probably get around to it
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">about the time my Indian Sign language is fluent enough to submit my</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">version in that as well!!)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> At any rate, best of luck with the relocation, and luck is needed when it</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> comes to Indian bureaucracy. ;-)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spoken like a man with experience! Yes, Indian Bureaucracy and the
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">crowded Bombay commuter trains are two of the few things i am NOT</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">looking forward to dealing with regualrly!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ron again:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Don't be a stranger now, y'hear?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I will TRY not to be ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">MWM || マイク || Мика || माईक</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
================</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Michael W Morgan</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Managing Director</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ishara Foundation</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mumbai (Bombay), India</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
++++++++++++++++</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">माईकल मोर्गन (पी.एच.डी.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">मेनेजिंग डॉयरेक्टर</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ईशारा फॉउंडेशन (मुंबई )</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">++++++++++++++++</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">茂流岸マイク(言語学博士)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NPO法人イシャラ基金の専務理事・事務局長</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ムンバイ(ボンベイ)、インド</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Etymology<br><br>
Hi, Mark!<br><br>Thanks for informing us about Ruth's situation. Whatever it's worth, my positive energies have already begun flying SA-ward, and I'm sure others will join them. After all, Ruth is a part of the family, albeit on an in-law basis.
<br><br>Even if the tests results come back positive, bear in mind what the Kahuna (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm</a>) just whispered in my ear:<br><br></span>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many ways of dancing and making music.<br><br><div style="text-align: left;">And take our Ben and Sandy as shining examples. Ben's blindness doesn't keep him from studying languages (including Chinese) and going to study abroad, and ... from being a birder. Sandy turned deaf as an adult after having been a musician. But look at him following his passions and making terrific contributions from which many people get to benefit! Sometimes we just need to switch over to a different route sometime along the way. Actually, most of us will eventually have to as our bodies wear out but our minds and spirits still want and need to soar.
<br><br>Please give your Ruth my love and best wishes.<br></div></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Hi again, Mike! And to add to your collection, it's <i>Michel </i>[ˈmɪçl̩] in Northern Low Saxon of Germany.
<br><br>You wrote:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Well, if Indian English is Lowlands, what about Tok Pisin and Bislama</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
(whcih have been trading places on the to-go and runners-up shelves)?</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To reiterate, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
all</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Englishes are within our focus, as are all pidgins and creoles that substantially involve (not necessarily constitute the bases of) Lowlands languages (which tend to be Afrikaans, Dutch and English). This puts Tok Pisin and Bislama fair and square into the Lowlands focus, since they are English-based creoles (former pidgins that have "gone native").
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A list of English-based creoles: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-based_creole_languages">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-based_creole_languages</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
A list of Dutch-based creoles and languages with heavy Dutch contributions: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch-based_creole_languages">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch-based_creole_languages</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Afrikaans-based: Tsotsitaal, Oorlams (Vlaaitaal)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Take a look at the index of our Anniversary Project to get an idea: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/contents.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/contents.php
</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Everything above the line is Lowlandic.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Tok Pisin is already there: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/tokpisin.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/tokpisin.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
As is Philippines English: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-philippines.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-philippines.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Although the languages varieties below the line are not within the focus area, those on top of that list are closely related, and some (e.g., Northern German, Missingsch and Scandinavian) are relevant by virtue of intensive contacts.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of the day, none are totally irrelevant, which is one of the reasons why in the language introductions (
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/contents-info.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/contents-info.php</a>) I mention contacts with Lowlands languages (e.g., Japanese, Hindi/Urdu, Kannada, Malay, Indonesian, Baba Malay [the latest addition], Tsalagi and Walloon).
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike, I envy you as you embark on a new phase in your exciting life as an expatriate. Why, I might even visit you sometime in good, old भारत माता. I'm sure you will have a wonderful time that is enriching for everyone concerned.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
> Don't be a stranger now, y'hear?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I will TRY not to be ..</span>.<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll hold you to it. You could even be our ambassador in India (and get a special name from the Kahuna) if you play your cards right.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">P.S.: Officially, our Sandy is A. Fleming, I assume (Alexander = Sandy, pronounced something like "Sawny" I think). Just after he joined us donkey years ago I assumed he was a woman, which he graciously corrected, yet I still danced many a Tango with him over orthographic issues.
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