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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 - 18 January 2008 - Volume 08
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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);">
Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</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 history" 2008.01.18 (07) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hi Elsie, thanks for all the information. I
remember reading somewhere that the VOIC actively tried to hire people to grow
vegetables for them. I knew about the sale of meat, but since Scorbut was their
biggest scourge I would think they needed fruit and veggies above all. If very
few farming <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">families</span></b> showed up and
if it was indeed the tradesmen and soldiers who became Vrijburgers who did the "settling"
and who took them selves local wives, that in and by itself explains the
creation of a mixed language. </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">It is very well possible that some leaders
of the VOIC enforced a rule that only Dutch should be spoken, but others did
not. That a mixed language could grow is certainly also due to the "laisser
faire" attitude of the Dutch. The same happened in </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">New York</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">
. That the English won
out over the Dutch in </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">North America</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> is just because they were empire builders and claimed all land
that they settled for the English Crown. </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">The Dutch were always more interested in
trading. The VOC had obtained a license from the Dutch government that gave
them free rule in their trading areas in South East Asia It was not until after
1800 AD when the VOC went belly-up that the Dutch government took over their
holdings. It is only then that they start to think about themselves as a
Colonial Power and enforced Dutch as the official language. By that time the
Brits had taken over in </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">South Africa</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">.</span></font>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">You are right in saying "Afrikaans"
is a vibrant language. I have used Lowland Languages to acquaint myself better
with it.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">It is amazing what you pick up by reading
a few e-mails. Yours are always interesting. Jacqueline</span></font></p><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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