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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 - 20 November 2007 - Volume 01
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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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);">
Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</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 "Etymology" 2007.11.19 (02) [E]<br><br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Brooks, Mark</span> <span><<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" target="_blank">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span> <br>Subject: LL-L "Morphology"
2007.11.16 (09) [E]<br> </div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sorry, but I like the Greek one better. I mean, if you want to sound truly learned, Greek takes the cake. .....</span></font><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then, there's always that lovely word "metathesis." Does it come from Greek?</span></font></div> <div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regards,</span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mark Brooks</span></font></div>----------<br></blockquote> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">My
feeling is that this worship of Classical speech has watered down
English from the strong Lowlands Germanic it once was. The belief that
you have to use such words ("big words") to seem wise is a blow to our
forbears. Read Winston Churchill's "fight them on the beaches" speech
to see what strength lies in true Lowlands English.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That I write and say such Greekish and Latinish myself doesn't make it
otherwise (You'll see I've tried not to here). </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd rather light a fire than ignite a conflagration, or precipitate pyrotechnics.
</div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"> <div> </div> <div>Paul Finlow-Bates</div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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