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<div style="text-align: center;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 07 June 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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========================================================================<br></div><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Fred van Brederode</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:f.vanbrederode@home.nl">f.vanbrederode@home.nl</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">Culture?<br></span><p><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Nothing linguistic,
though still of cultural importance, I'd like to bring up an observation.</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">In the beginning of this
year I announced on our LL list the trip I was going to make a trip to San
Francisco. I have been back for ages again, but looking at the pictures </span></font></span><span><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I </span></font></span><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">remember a large building
in the city center flying a Dutch (Netherlands) flag: the horizontal tricolor
of red, white and blue bands. It was not the Dutch consulate or something and I
remember having seen this on the east coast (at least in New England) on a rather
large scale. Especially antique shops there fly the tricolor flag. Sometimes
they have the word "open" printed in the middle (white) band. </span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The legend says that
Dutch was only this close to becoming the official language of the US. We are
quite convinced these days that this truly is a legend, but the flying
tricolors on the other hand are really there. Could it be true that the
independent US always regretted the British took over and longed back for the
Peter Stuijvesandt era with the good old red, white and blue bands. Will this
explain their flagging behaviour? Or would there be some other explanation?</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Groeten</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fred van Brederode</span></font></span></p>----------<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: History<br><br>Hi again, Fred!<br><br>Let me just remind you that our focus does include culture and history besides language. So no apologies needed.<br><br>
Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</span><br><br><br>
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