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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 - 14 November 2007 - Volume 03
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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(0, 104, 28);">
jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Language use"</span><br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear
Lowlanners,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">yesterday evening I
experienced a proof for the fact how important and helpful it can be to speak a
regional dialect- in this case <em>my</em> Low Saxon.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Late afternoon I
went into my hunting district to look for some wild geese for Christmas,
accompanied of course by my dog. Due to the fact that she is a young and not yet
well trained 'Uutbund' ('<em>Outbounder</em>'; paragon??) she got lost in the
dark, chivying any hare or roe deer.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I drove around with
my car for a good hour without finding any track. At last I saw lights of
an automobile near the dike, at the end of my district. I stopped right
after this vehicle and saw a shepherd looking into his corral where he had
fenced in his sheep.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">He came
towards me at once and asked me in an aggressive voice if I did miss any
hunting dog. I answered in an affirmative- instinctively using Low
Saxon.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">The good man showed
me any black 'pack' sitting trembling in the edge, right within the electric
fence- my missed dog which was unable to jump over the fence in the dark. I fear
it was a bad but perhaps educative torture for it...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">The stockman still
was a bit upset, because he feared for the integrity of his sheep, but
impressed by my native tongue he calmed down and even helped me to lift the
poor thing over the fence.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Though obviously
born in the region he didn't speak LS himself, but I guess that if I had
talked to him in Standard German the situation could have escalated. So my
native tongue showed him that I was one of <em><strong>"us"</strong></em> and
not one of those people we call <em>"Stadtfrack"</em> (literally:
'city swallowtail', perhaps to translate as 'green wellie')- that
ones without any knowledge about rural matters.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">What at the end
became a friendly conversation about hunting, sheep and dogs otherwise could
have turned into any bad animosity.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div><br>
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