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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 - 10 January 2008 - Volume 02
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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 education" 2008.01.09 (03) [E]</span><br><br></span>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear
Heather,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you wrote as an
answer to Gael:</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#008080" face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have said it before on this forum and
will repeat it at the risk of sounding boring - teaching standard language in
whatever country allows those who do have mutually unintelligible dialects of
the same language to communicate.And that surely is a good thing? It allows
access to all walks of life to everyone. If there was no attempt at a standard
language, young people would be restricted to working in the (small) area where
they were intelligible which would be a retrograde
step.</span></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">It is NOT boring at
all to repeat a clear truth and convincement!</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I fully agree with
all you wrote in your mail.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Let me add just one
thought more: isn't it dangerous for a language to loose its preciseness, the
possibilities of dealing with small but important differences in e.g. sciences
e.a.? We have seen this kind of development in Low Saxon, and it led (and
still leads) to the fact that it became a very unimportant minority
language with only a certain neat social background.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Maybe American
(English) will escape this fate, but NOT by being simplified- quite the
opposite: for my opinion it should continue to gather the best of the
immigrant's languages as it has done in the past.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I think it is not
necessary to show up here the social conflicts arising if (in special younger)
people are unable to deal with the official language of their country.
Their <u>legal</u> possibilities to climb up the ladder of social ranking will
forever remain very restricted.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Allerbest</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Jonny
Meibohm</font></span></div></div>
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marcel Bas</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roepstem@hotmail.com">roepstem@hotmail.com
</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 "Language education" 2008.01.09 (05) [AE]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Hi Elsie,</span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
You wrote about the television programmes: "</span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial">which tends to broadcast mixed-language <br>kiddie shows"</font><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Can you tell me if Kid's Newsroom also broadcasts in Afrikaans? They
used to broadcast in Xhosa, Zulu, Venda, Tswana (among others) and in
English, but </span><em style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">not</em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Afrikaans. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I went to the embassy back in May to talk (and complain) about this
language discrimination. The embassador said that there is no reason
why the show is not aired in Afrikaans when it is aired in English. She
said this because the main argument for the discrimination of Afrikaans
is that social networks of Afrikaans speakers (both coloured and white)
are more intact that those of black peoples in rural areas. These kids
need news and information on where to go to when they are in
need. Children in black communities usually only speak their own
language, so the show has to be broadcast in one of the African
languages. So why is it aired in English, then?</span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
So she could make a plan with people from the SABC. What's more, Kid's
Newsroom was financed by a Dutch organisation, Free Voice. I think that
the least that we can expect from a Dutch organisation is that it
supports the promotion of Afrikaans.</span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
So is the show in Afrikaans, or is the language still being ignored?</span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Best regards,</span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Marcel.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span></span><br>
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