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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 - 03 January 2008 - 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(121, 6, 25);">
jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</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 class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.01.02 (06) [E]</span><br><br></span>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you
wrote:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> <span><font face="Courier New"><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> The
merchant marine, too, has been using only German at least since</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> the
beginning of the 20th century, Low Saxon being confined to private</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>
spheres. Why, many sailors come from far off the coastal areas, some </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>
even from Bavaria!</span></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Today it's English
on all ships sailing on international routes.</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>> </span>P.S.: One
of these days we ought to put a comparative nautical vocabulary list
together.</div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Have a look at the
German wiki here: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_seem%C3%A4nnischer_Fachw%C3%B6rter" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_seem%C3%A4nnischer_Fachw%C3%B6rter</a> </font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">That might be a
very good fundament.</font></span></div>
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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>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm</span><br>
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