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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 - 12 June 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
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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);">Travis Bemann</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:tabemann@gmail.com">tabemann@gmail.com</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 use" 2008.06.12 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
> From: Jorge Potter <<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.06.10 (02) [E]<br>
><br>
>> Dear Travis and rest,<br>
><br>
> You mentioned:<br>
><br>
>> In the middle you have<br>
>> cases like much of Wisconsin, where the population is largely<br>
>> assimilated, where the only signs of the language(s) they spoke before<br>
>> English are substratum features in their English, but where there is<br>
>> still the retention of a distinct identity rather than being<br>
>> completely assimilated into Anglo-American society.<br>
><br>
> When I went to work in Neenah WI as a physician in 1964, I had a patient<br>
> with a very definite European accent consult me. I asked him, "Where were<br>
> you born?"<br>
><br>
> He answered, "Denmark."<br>
><br>
> As I tried to compute his medical problem, unconsciously I was off on his<br>
> ethnicity. It definitely wasn't Danish. His was a German accent. Eureka!<br>
> (remember, still unconscious) He was born in Denmark, Wisconsin, where most<br>
> people still spoke German.<br>
><br>
> QED<br>
<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One should remember here that the language loss which I described</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
occurred the very latest in rural northern Wisconsin, so it is not</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
surprising if there were people still around actively speaking German</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
in Denmark, WI in the 1960s. (As opposed to here in southeastern</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Wisconsin, where German was already well on its way to local</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
extinction, with very many people in my grandparents' generation</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
already having become English-monolingual.) Mind you though that there</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
was also significant settlement by North Germanic-speakers in parts of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Wisconsin, particularly Norwegians, but also including Danes, Swedes,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
and Icelanders, and considering the name of the town in question it is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
not inconceivable that it had been at least originally settled by</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
North Germanic-speakers.</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;">
Also, accent does not indicate such in and of itself; for instance,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the English spoken here has phonetic signs of German influence even</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
today, such as limited final fortition in less GA-like idiolects and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the particular realization of rounded back vowels, despite German</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
being practically extinct here (aside from the occasional very old</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
person, of which there are fewer than even older people speaking</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Polish). Hell, I myself have been told that I have a foreign accent,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
and I am for all practical intents and purposes English-monolingual</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
(despite being able to read and write German when I have sufficient</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
access to a good dictionary).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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