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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 - 01 June 2008 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<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);">Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></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 varieties" 2008.06.01 (01) [E]<br> <br>Haai all,<br>
<br>Nee watwou, oompie Mark, jy vang die ding daar goed vas!<br><br>In the 60s, the Rehoboth Basters were probably as conservative as the Afrikaners were then,<br>but I don't think that is valid anymore. I think it is a tad silly to assume they, like the Afrikaners,<br>
are a homogenous little group untouched by education, world views and international exposure.<br><br>Groetnis,<br><br>Elsie<br><br>I feel I aught to apologise in advance to Elsie, who has a philological ear nearer to the ground in their part of the World, for pre-empting her. However, I have had a bit of contact with them in times past, & it seemed to me they spoke a fairly academic Kaaps Afrikaans between themselves. For example, there was no 'klankbreek', diphthongisation, to the long vowels that we tend to hear in the Transvaal, & their language is replete with terminology that didn't make it to my neck of the woods. For example, they refer to black men & women as 'outa' & 'ayah', that came from terms of address to Cape Malays. Is this how she sounded?<br>
<br>>>I agree about their conservatism though, & they are indeed, quintessentially, more Afrikaans than the Afrikaners.<br><br>Yrs in anticipation,<br><br>Mark<br> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Thanks, Elsie and Mark.<br><br>Mark, you asked:</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Is this how she sounded?</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">That's difficult to say, because she only said a few sentences. I could tell it was Afrikaans but phonologically it didn't seem like Standard Afrikaans.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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