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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 - 22 December 2007 - Volume 04
</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: Sandy Fleming <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language attitudes" 2007.12.22 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Subject: LL-L "Language attitudes" 2007.12.21 (03) [E]</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> How about a "Most Pointless Contest" contest? They could hardly lose</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> with that one.</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;">Maybe we could hold one on the list? Something I thought of while
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">driving about lost in Exeter in Devon today...</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;">You know the English comedian Tony Hancock who wore a Homburg hat as his</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">trademark before his head got too big for it?</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;">
And you know how when you see people wearing hats, especially at</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">weddings, there's always good hats and bad hats?
</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, driving about Exeter today trying to find the CityLink depot, I
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">drove down quite a large road called "Bad Homburg Way".</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;">So my entry in the Most Pointless Contest Contest is...</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;">"To nominate the place name that sounds silliest to speakers of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">indigenous language".</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;">
And if this entry wins the contest contest, I thereafter nominate the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">entry to the winning contest (after considering the village of "Velvet
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bottom" in Somerset and "Little Heck" in Yorkshire) to be "Bad Homburg</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Way", in Exeter, Devon.</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;">Sandy Fleming</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://scotstext.org/">http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Contest</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: Marcus Buck <
<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Subject: Miss beautiful language</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">.....I just read the news on <a href="http://Eurolang.net">Eurolang.net</a> and they have a news item about Estonia announcing a 'Miss contest' for beautiful languages....</span>
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Marcus Buck</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Most languages might walk away with prizes if only more contests of the sort were organized. For example ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<li>Cutest language</li><li>Most sophisticated-sounding language</li><li>Purest language</li><li>Most percussive language</li><li>Language least likely to be identified by unprepared linguists</li><li>Easiest oral language for sinusitis sufferers
</li><li>Oral language requiring the highest degree of lingual mobility</li><li>Oral language requiring the lowest degree of labial mobility</li><li>Best oral language for toothless people that wear no dental prostheses</li>
<li>Most human-sounding language when used by parrots, parakeets, ravens and lyrebirds</li><li>Most convenient oral language at sub-zero temperatures</li><li>Language most easily understood through a felt <i>burqa</i></li>
<li>Language most likely to be mistaken for machine gun fire</li><li>Most convenient oral language in which to request the Heimlich maneuver</li><li>Language most despised by its own users</li><li>Most misnamed language</li>
<li>Language with the largest number of names<br></li><li>Most ridiculed language</li><li>Most ridiculous language<br></li><li>Holiest language</li><li>Most forgotten language</li><li>Most descriptive language<br></li><li>
Most floral language</li><li>Most bombastic language<br></li><li>Most related language</li><li>Language most likely to be of extraterrestrial origin<br></li></ul><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;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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