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<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 17 July 2008 - Volume 07<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(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language use" 2008.07.17 (03) [E]<br><br></span><div id=":dd" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">a nice and really
interesting hap! Even in Germany there is not too much chance to meet people as
described in a big city.</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#008080">Wherever you are, whatever you
speak, never assume you can't be understood.</font></span></font></span></div>
<div> </div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">That reminds
me of a story my brother and I experienced in Canada, about 30 years
ago.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">We were on a
campsite and had taken a shower in the lavatory. In the changing room
for some very special reasons we didn't want any people understand our
talk, so we used our LS. What an awkward surprise, when an older pair of
native Canadians suddenly asked, in LS!!!, if we were Mennonites like them.
(Fortunately they hadn't understood all of our dialogue
*g*!)</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Of course my
brother and I didn't know that the Mennonites still had kept Plautdietsch as
their main language- otherwise we would have been more
careful...</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div><font color="#888888">
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Jonny
Meibohm</font></div></font></div>
</div><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</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;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Danette & John Howland</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:dan_how@msn.com">dan_how@msn.com</a>><br>
</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language use" 2008.07.17 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="lDACoc"><br></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In response to Ron's delightful report: </span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"The world <b>is</b> becoming a small place."</span></font>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>I just have to thank you for sharing this and I hope you have made lasting friendships.</span></font><br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font> <br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Warmest regards, </span></font><br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font> <br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">John Howland</span></font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</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;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Hugo Zweep</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Zweep@bigpond.com">Zweep@bigpond.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span>LL-L "Language use" 2008.07.17 (03) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Reminds me of years ago. It was in a provicial
Australian town when I was still being a lawyer, some clients came to me
about a transaction which turned out to be shady. I told them I couldn't
help. The father asked me to give him a moment and turned to his sons to
explain that if they dressed up the facts differently they'd be able to fool me
and get the deal done. Unfortunately for him he spoke plat, I understood
and intervened and gave them the best surprise I have seen for a long time.
Turned out that they were German migrants from you guessed where and
hadn't heard a plat speaker for years.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">This year on the Camino de Santiago, where many
nationalities try to speak to each other in a mix of
languages,</font> <font size="2">I was struggling to understand
German. Someone made the comment that I spoke plat and maybe that would work
better. Then someone else nudged a friend and said - you speak plat. Try
it. Sadly the knowledge extended barely beyond greetings with the speaker
commenting that they thought they could because they had heard plat but never
seriously tried to speak it. The moral to me was that broadcasting and teaching
plat needs to be accompamied by practical application. Without it the language
is just a museum piece,.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Hugo Zweep</font></div><br>
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