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<font size="2"> <br>L O W L A N D S - L - 06 November 2007 - Volume 05<br>Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)<br>=========================================================================
<br><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></span> <br>Subject:
<span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.11.09 (03) [E]<br><br></span></font><div id="1ffy" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Haai,
Elsie!</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: L-Lowlands
(terminology).</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Come, let us prick
Ron's curiosity.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As you report,
Oorlams is a rural-based creole mostly found in the Northern Cape
and Namibia, </span></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><font size="2"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">interspersed with Nama...
& </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Incidentally,
the adjective 'oorlams' means
to be cheeky, excited, insolent.</span></font></div></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But that's not all,
& to follow the word in it's history casts in an unforgiving light the
presumption that this our South Africa ever developed in isolation.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In the earlier years
of our history you got three classes of South African White - those straight
from Nederland(ideally) were dubbed 'Vaderlands'. Those who had acquired further
polish in the Far East were dubbed 'Oorlams', & those who had the misfortune
to be born & bred in this country passed for 'Afrikaner'.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Verklarende
Afrikaanse Woordeboek (Kritzinger, Labuschagne & Nienaber) has this to say,
(in translation with the sister volume Kritzinger, Steyn, Schoonees &
Cronje'), clever, handy, shrewd, sharp, fly (<em>'n oorlamse skepsel</em>) a
Hottentot, Bushman or even Bantu well-versed in the language & ways of white
people; an old hand.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Boshoff &
Nienaber (Afrikaanse Terminologie) trace it back as early as Van Riebeek to the
Malayan 'orang lama' = someone that (long ago) came (to the Far
East).</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span> </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yrs,</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark<br><br>----------<br><br></span></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Thanks a lot for educating us further about Oorlams, Mark. Very interesting!
<br><br>If we had an Oorlams wren I would use this information in the accompanying information ... 8-)<br><br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>P.S.: I hope everything went well for your Ruth yesterday. Please give her my love and encouragement.
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