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<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 22 July 2008 - Volume 02<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">jonny</span> <span><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Grammar"</span><br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Lowlanners,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">again I'd like to
pick up our discussion about grammar.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Today I happened to
read about <strong><em>Eike von Repgow</em></strong>, the author of the
'Sachsenspiegel', a work written in the 13th c. in Middle Low Saxon. According
to the Wikipedia </font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">German: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_von_Repgow#S.C3.A4chsische_Weltchronik" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_von_Repgow#S.C3.A4chsische_Weltchronik</a> )</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">English: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_von_Repgow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_von_Repgow</a></font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">he just had a
'basic' knowledge of grammar, which he probably had learned from any secular
priest. It's not proved or sure that he could write himself but
supposedly had hired any scribe to whom he made
dictates.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">So, I'm
wondering: a famous, quite well educated author of an epochal piece
of literature presumably just had a small knowledge about the grammar
of his language. Who, how many people, had a better one? Who set up the rules?
And: how did 'normal', less educated people speak?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Had there been
another, possibly very different language (with various
dialects) that could have been closer to Modern Low Saxon, which, as
some of you might have realized *s*, I meanwhile aspect as a language preferably
to speak, less suited to write? I'm quite aware of the fact that there are
always(?) big differences between spoken and written language. But the author of
the 'Sachsenspiegel' just being capable to act on a low level of grammar makes
my view of the linguistic world wamble. Where are you gone, all your old
fashioned correctness and straight grammatics? Just a theoretical
framework for a handful of scholars? </font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Somehow
disappointing and disillusioning, but perhaps this view gives a new
chance to explain the big difference between Middle Low Saxon and the varieties
of Modern Low Saxon. Middle Low Saxon probably wasn't the 'mother' of
Modern Low Saxon, just the nurse...</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Jonny Meibohm</font></div><br><br>
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