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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 20 December 2007 - Volume 01<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="JDpiNd"></span><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>Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Resources"<br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear
Lowlanners,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">just enjoying an
interim-time of peace when nobody tries to improve Low Saxon ;-) I heard
about the plans of Gooogle to capture, at least to acquire the WIKI-project. Is
it true?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">For my opinion this
would be a disastrous event. Google with all its well-known hyper-potency should
take part with or even absorb WIKI?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">At the very urgent
moment I'm just able to offer you the German site; I'm sure you'll find a lot of
counterparts in your own, special language:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"> <a href="http://www.chip.de/news/Knol-Google-plant-Wikipedia-Alternative_29854133.html" target="_blank">http://www.chip.de/news/Knol-Google-plant-Wikipedia-Alternative_29854133.html</a>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left"> </div>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm</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;">
----------</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;">From: Robert McMahon <<a href="mailto:rmcmahon@staffmail.ed.ac.uk">
rmcmahon@staffmail.ed.ac.uk</a>></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 "Resources"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</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;">I just thought some of you(s) might be interested in the following web</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
site which records some of the results from a project funded by the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">AHRC and based in Edinburgh. The sound comparisons project has been
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">developing methods for quantifying the similarity between dialects and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">languages over the last few years and the web site,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.soundcomparisons.com/" target="_blank">
http://www.soundcomparisons.com/</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">records the results from the last two years for a standard set of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">items from a group of English dialects and related Germanic languages</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
- including a few lowland varieties. The words have been collected</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">recorded and transcribed into IPA and the web site has over a 1000
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">sound files from the project, and includes reconstructed forms for</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">some of the hypothesised ancestral pronunciations of the collected</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
words.</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;">Best wishes</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;">Rob McMahon</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
R.McMahon (PhD)Dip RCPath.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Clinical Scientist</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Molecular Genetics Service</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Molecular Medicine Centre</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Western General Hospital</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Crewe Road</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Edinburgh</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">EH4 2XU</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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