<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 - 07 November 2007 - Volume 04
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Mike Morgan</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><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: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Member's news" 2007.11.08 (03) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Howzit!</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]:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> Well, if Indian English is Lowlands, what about Tok Pisin and Bislama<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> (which have been trading places on the to-go and runners-up shelves)?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[R/R]:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
> To reiterate, all Englishes are within our focus, as are all pidgins and<br>> creoles that substantially involve (not necessarily constitute the bases of)<br>> Lowlands languages (which tend to be Afrikaans, Dutch and English). This
<br>> puts Tok Pisin and Bislama fair and square into the Lowlands focus, since<br>> they are English-based creoles (former pidgins that have "gone native").<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Sorry brah, I wen forget ALL da kine pidgins was Lowlands (I come</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pearl side, but live long time up Makiki way -- mauka-side, brah, so
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">no LOW lands, so no give me da stink eye, eh?). Ain no way I go India</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">widout my copy Lee Tonouchi's Living Pidgin an' also Da Word (dat one</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
FUNNY book, eh, j'like wen we waz kids) ... So dat make, wat, EIGHT</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lowlands languages I gon take wit? Eh braddah, get so many! Maybe
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">betta jes go whole cheese and take 'em all!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Mike, I envy you as you embark on a new phase in your exciting life as an<br>> expatriate. Why, I might even visit you sometime in good, old भारत माता. I'm
<br>> sure you will have a wonderful time that is enriching for everyone<br>> concerned.<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You are always most welcome, as are ANY and ALL Lowlands list members
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">who pass through my new neighborhood Just drop me an email and give</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">me a heads up, and I'll have the chai ready and the rotis hot!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<br>> You could even be our ambassador in India (and get a<br>> special name from the Kahuna) if you play your cards right.<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I would be most greatly overjoyed to be the recipient of such an
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">honour, ... though the only card game I know is Nepali 3-card, no-peek</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">poker. THAT is a real blast!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br>>
P.S.: Officially, our Sandy is A. Fleming, I assume (Alexander = Sandy,<br>> pronounced something like "Sawny" I think). Just after he joined us donkey<br>> years ago I assumed he was a woman, which he graciously corrected, yet I
<br>> still danced many a Tango with him over orthographic issues.<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, and I am officially Michael, but the only person who knew me who</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">has EVER called me that was my mother, and then only when I was little</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
and she was hoppin' mad at me! NOT a pleasant memory ... And, just for</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the record (since I always sign-off with the 3 initials), the middle
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">name is Wayne, which for some reason I have ALWAYS hated (EVEN in my</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Arthurian period when I imagined it was a form of Gawain). And the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
initials MWM are not only easy to write, but even easier to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">fingerspell ... IN ASL (not nearly so "handy" in either BSL or ISL,
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm afraid) .... the ASL name-sign incorporates JUST the two M's</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">articulated at the chin, and my more widely known JSL and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
international name sign is the one-handed form of the sign for "beard"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(though beards are NOT so uncommon where I am going, they are a rarity
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">where I have been, and hence the distinctive name sign.)</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, I WILL be in touch ... and as I have OFTEN noticed that some</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of the "strange" forms of Indian English are not quite so strange to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
me (given my almost-Appalachian mother if not a previous South Asian</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">rebirth), maybe on occassion I will be checking in to see if they have
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">broader Lowlands connections. [for instance, the idiom "do the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">needful" came up the other day in an email from Ishara's principal (it</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
MAY in fact have even been in the plural "do the needfuls", but as i</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">cannot locate the email right now, I can't be sure.) ... any Lowlands
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">links there???</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<br>MWM || マイク || Мика || माईक<br><br>================<br><br>Dr Michael W Morgan<br>Managing Director<br>Ishara Foundation<br>Mumbai (Bombay), India<br><br>++++++++++++++++<br><br>माईकल मोर्गन (पी.एच.डी.)<br>मेनेजिंग डॉयरेक्टर
<br>ईशारा फॉउंडेशन (मुंबई )<br><br>++++++++++++++++<br><br>茂流岸マイク(言語学博士)<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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>
Howdy 'gain, Mike!<br><br>I conferred with the Kahuna, and we unanimously voted in favor of appointing you to the post of Lowlands Ambassador to India. Should you accept this assignment, the Kahuna will send a buxom </span>
<i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">kaikamahine</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> or strapping </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">keiki kāne</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
(whichever you prefer) to give you a </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">lei</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. Just for having taken the speaker's mat he has bestowed upon you a mat of honor and a "fragrant name," upon Marcus as well:
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm</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;">
But mind that this prestigious diplomatic post comes with expectations. Various Indic wrens would be a start.</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;">Regards, from the Kahuna 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;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">