<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 - 16 November 2007 - Volume 01
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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);">
Maria Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></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 "Language use" 2007.11.15 (03) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hoi alltouhoop,</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;">Thank you for a lovely story Jonny! </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In a way it reminds me of the story of my first visit to a rural post office in Quebec Province, Canada: </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 truckdriver
friend, a Mennonite Plautsnakker, warned me that the rural
'Québécoise' will refuse to speak to us in English. So we decided
beforehand to talk to each other in Afrikaans and in Plautdietsch in
case this should happen. </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, the good old lady greeted us
in French, asked where we were from and grumbled about the rain ruining
her raspberries. I asked her for stamps and she went on refusing to
understand me. So then we started talking in our mother tongues. And
she understood the dilemma and said in good English, 'Oh, you don't
speak French?' and sold me a few stamps.</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;">Elsie Zinsser
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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);">
Helge Tietz</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:helgetietz@yahoo.com">helgetietz@yahoo.com</a>></span></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 "Language use" 2007.11.15 (05) [E]</span><br><span class="HcCDpe"><br></span>Dear Paul,<br><br>I have to admit, I don't really understand your
comment there at the end of Jonny's little ancdote. Do you refer to
hunting, sheep and dogs? I am myself a strict vegetarian but I am fully
aware that this is something I can afford these days because of food
imports which haven't been there before. My forefathers 100 years ago
had to utilize everything carefully which their little farm offered in
order to survive, and that, of course, included slaughtering animals.
But they did this carefully, not wastefully, like it is done today! I
remember headlines from London-based newspapers about blood-thirsty
Faroe-Islanders because they hunt about 2000 pilot-whales per year.
They have hunted them for hundreds of years in the same number and
pilot-whales do not belong to the threatened species, the little
Faroe-population is not responsible for the possible extinction of
whales! If then, it is general over-fishing in the Norfth Atlantic and
there you can actually include the Faroes among all others, e.g. the
UK. And bloodthirsty? What did the same authors think is going on in
Britain's slaughterhouses? What makes whales more precious than cows
and and pigs? At least, the Faroes kill them in the open, that is more
honest and everyone can see what is going on, it is not hidden behind
the walls of a slaughterhouse. If Jonny tells us a story about hunting,
sheep and dogs, that is perefctly alright and authentic to me, I trust
Jonny that he is not doing it excessively! And I also experience the
same that speaking the local dialect helps acceptence from the locals
and why not? A Londoner would expect that a person who comes to live in
his town learns the English language in a way that he/she understands
it, what is normal and perfectly alright for a Londoner is then
suddenly chauvinism if the same demands come from a Low Saxon or, let's
say a Geordie or Scotsman? I don't see the difference. But perhaps I
misunderstood what you wrote Paul, if so , then please let me know!<br><br>Groeten<br><br>Helge<br>