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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Projects<br>
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Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
As most of you know, our Anniversary presentation
(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>) is our most popular one in that
it is visited far more often than our other presentations, although the
other presentations are by no means ignored and on many days receive quite
respectable numbers of visitors. (It tends to take a while for a presentation to
increase the number of visitors as people pass on the URL to each other and
other sites link to it.)<br>
<br>
Judging by the numbers of "hits" individual pages of the Anniversary
presentation receive on a daily basis, I am pleased to see that there is
particularly much interest in lesser known languages and in non-standard
language varieties. People seem to jump at the opportunity to get that
type of rarely found information, which is also why quite a few educational
sites link to them.<br>
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I believe that one of our weaker areas remains Scots, and that despite our Sandy's valiant effort to
provide versions of the fable in two varieties of Mainland Scots. Given the
number of Lowlands-L members in and from Scotland
and those with connections in Scotland,
I think we can do a lot better than this. Not only would it be nice to have two
or three more varieties of Mainland Scots represented (and a Borders dialect
would be nice as an "in-between" considering our Glenn's Northumbrian
version), but we should also have a version each in Ulster Scots, Shetlandic
and Orcadian.<br>
<br>
Please bear in mind that there is <b>a lot</b> of interest in Scots out there,
as well as in various English varieties. I am pretty sure we can do more to
meet those demands.<br>
<br>
I have received several messages asking why there are no audio files for Scots.
We really should have at least one, because people outside Britain and
overseas Scottish circle don't know what it sounds like and really want to
know. Obviously, being deaf, it's very difficult for Sandy to produce audio files himself. I'm
asking you to help with this, to make or have made audio files for Sandy's versions and/or provide
other versions with audio files.<br>
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<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots.php</a><br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots-lothian.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/scots-lothian.php</a><br>
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Audio files for the Northumbrian and Scottish English versions would be lovely,
too, of course.<br>
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<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/northumbrian.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/northumbrian.php</a><br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-scotland.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-scotland.php</a><br>
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As I said, interest in English language varieties is quite strong. People all
over the world study English and want to find out things beyond Standard
varieties. I am sure we can accommodate this further than we have done so far.
I strongly suggest all of you in and from English-speaking parts consider
helping us with this (and this includes our Indian, Irish, New Zealander, Pakistani and South
African friends). If you cannot produce such versions and audio files
yourselves, I'm sure you know people that can, people you can "bug"
about it.<br>
<br>
Furthermore on the top of my extensive wish list are versions in the following
outside the Lowlands:<br>
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Alemannic (Swiss, Alsatian, Swabian etc.)</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Bengali</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Corsican</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Croatian</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Friulan</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Kashubian</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Khmer</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Ladin</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Ladino</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Latvian</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Lithuanian</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Malayalam</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Marathi</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Oriya</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Romany</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Sanskrit</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Slovenian</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Luxembourgish</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Tamil</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Telugu</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Thai</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
Tibetan</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
and any variety of Americas and Oceania</span><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
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Please consider helping with this, and please write to me if you have
questions, suggestions or promises.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br style="">
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