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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Media" 2008.02.12 (03) [E]</span><br><br></span><div><font face="Times New Roman">...un wosaken dat aflöppt, hett Jennifer M.
Borchers hier <a href="http://www.plattpartu.de/welt/ndr_ny.htm" target="_blank">http://www.plattpartu.de/welt/ndr_ny.htm</a> för
uns opschreven! Allens ganz leger, keen Grund för Lampenfever :-)
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<b>Subject:</b> LL-L "Media" 2008.02.12 (03)
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Subject: Media</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Last week I mentioned the
North German Broadcasting TV series "De Welt op Platt" which looks at Low
Saxon language use around the world. If you read German you can find out more
about it here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2uh4pd" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2uh4pd</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">There is still a decent chance
of me participating in the planned California section. Irrespective of whether
or not I do, I invite other Low Saxon ("Platt") speakers in California to
contact me if they are willing to consider participating. If I do participate
it will probably be in or near San Francisco visiting Chinatown and other
neighborhoods. It would be great if at least one other speaker could be
featured in the area. An association would be even better. Even if you don't
qualify yourselves, perhaps you know people that do. I suppose that Southern
California will be included also.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Here is an update: The filming
of this particular program will take place in June 2008, and it will be
broadcast in June 2009.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The documentaries are of high,
professional quality and are really quite impressive when watched in DVD
format. (I just got copies of all programs finished so far.) Each program is
introduced bilingually </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">in situ</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">, in German by Julia Westlake,
and in Low Saxon by Yared Dibaba, a bit like a bilingual conversation. The
general format is footage about place and people woven around chiefly Low
Saxon interviews in pertinent locations. Everything Low Saxon is subtitled in
German. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">These documentaries are
produced with the average viewer in mind. There is nothing particularly
"high-level," just talk about place, background and history on a personal
and/or community level. The general message of the series is that Low Saxon is
</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">not</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">, as commonly assumed, limited
to certain individuals and communities in Northern Germany but is still being
used in many parts of the world. Programs about East Coast USA, Midwest USA,
Seattle (USA), Paraguay, Brazil (Pomerode), Australia (Sydney), South Africa
(New Hanover and Hermannsburg), Namibia, and Siberia have been completed and
most have been broadcast. Cape Town (South Africa), Adelaide (South
Australia), Chile, China (Beijing and Shanghai) and California are currently
at the planning stages or in the works, and others may follow. If you know
anyone relevant in these planned locations or anywhere else, please let me
know and I will pass it on.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Thanks in advance4.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Reinhard/Ron</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
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