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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 18 March 2008 - Volume 02<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.03.16 (03) [E]</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;">
Thanks Orville,</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;">
I'll carry on with Drents, but I haven't lived in the Drenthe town of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Zuidwolde for about 22 years. That's why I was rather surprised to find</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
out that people of my generation (under 40) still have Low Saxon as their</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
common, everyday language, instead of Standard Dutch or Low Saxon coloured</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Dutch. In the places I lived after I left Drenthe, i.e. Brabant and around</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Arnhem (Gelderland), there are far less real dialect speakers. Maybe this</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
is because in those areas, dialects of Dutch are spoken, and not seperate</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
languages such as Low Saxon. I also lived in the Achterhoek, the Eastern</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
part of Gelderland where Low Saxon dialects are spoken, and there quite a</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
lot of people spoke that language as well, much more than in parts of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
same province with dialects of Dutch.</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;">
I wonder how that is in Germany, are there still towns to be found where</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
most people under 40 years old do speak Low Saxon?</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;">
Groeten</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ingmar</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;">
PS: Have you become a man because of the water, Orville, or do you just</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
live close to the sea ? ;-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: orville crane <<a href="mailto:manbythewater@hotmail.com">manbythewater@hotmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.03.16 (03) [E]<br><br>
Carry on, Ingmar, with your Drents in the land of the Hunebedden!<br>
man by the water<br><br>
From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.03.15 (03) [D/E]<br><br>
Yesterday I went to Drenthe, to a reunion of my primary school in the town<br>
where I grew up. Most of my old class mates I hadn't seen for over 25<br>
years, that was real fun! But I was happily surprised as well to find out<br>
that the common language still turned out to be Low Saxon: almost everyone<br>
spoke Drenthe dialect instead of Dutch. Even the teacher and a local<br>
journalist who kind of lead the gathering later on, who were both<br>
originally from Friesland and raised in Frisian, spoke Low Saxon. The<br>
journalist did even ask in the beginning: shall I speak Dutch or just<br>
Drentish, I assume the last, as usual. So there is still hope for our<br>
language, because we were all below 40 yrs old (except for the teacher of<br>
course and that journalist). I hadn't really expected that.<br><br></div>
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