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<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 - 10 November 2007 - Volume 02
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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);">
Ben J. Bloomgren</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@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 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1f0k" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font size="2">Sorry brah, I wen forget ALL da kine pidgins was
Lowlands (I come<br>Pearl side, but live long time up Makiki way -- mauka-side,
brah, so <br>no LOW lands, so no give me da stink eye, eh?). Ain no way I go
India<br>widout my copy Lee Tonouchi's Living Pidgin an' also Da Word (dat
one<br>FUNNY book, eh, j'like wen we waz kids) ... So dat make, wat,
EIGHT<br>Lowlands languages I gon take wit? Eh braddah, get so many! Maybe
<br>betta jes go whole cheese and take 'em all!<br></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ok whoa! That was cool Mike! Was that Tok Pissin or
Bicilama? I'm fascinated by the English creoles, especially the ones down in the
Caribbean.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ben<br><br>----------<br><br></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></span></font></font>Ben, Mike, folks,<br><br>Apart from the entertainment value that pidgin and creole varieties tend to have, I believe they are extremely valuable scientifically as well in that they offer a fairly clear glimpse at an important part of language development.
<br><br>After all, there is no language on earth that has escaped contacts with other languages, contacts that more or less influenced it and its further development. So there is really no strict dividing line between "mixed languages" and "pure languages," the latter of which are just a figment of people's wishful thinking.
<br><br>Pidgins and creoles (the former being non-native, the latter native) are simply the most extreme type on a sliding scale, followed closely by <i>Missingsch</i> and <i>Stadfries</i> types, followed by varieties exemplified by Gullah, African American Vernacular (Ebonics). And English, Scots and Afrikaans are not very far behind, then English of South and Southeast Asia, then English anywhere outside Europe ... and so forth. Yiddish, Ladino and the many other Jewish languages fit in there somewhere, too. If we care to pay attention, we can now witness the early evolution of Turkish-, Kurdish- and Arabic- and otherwise influenced varieties of Danish, Dutch, German, French, etc.
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</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the beauties of pidgins and creoles is that they show us the dynamics and processes at the most extreme within fairly short periods of time.
</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,</span><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;">
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