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L O W L A N D S - L - 06 September 2008 - Volume 07<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Lee Goldberg</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:leybl_goldberg@yahoo.com">leybl_goldberg@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.09.06 (05)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">On the
spread of the "High"/"Low" terminology, I remember hearing
an Italian-American classmate in New York
(where most of the Italian community have their origins in Sicily
and Calabria and other areas of southern Italy) complain that people in Rome spoke a "High Italian" that
was hard to understand. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(That was
in the 1970s and I really don't know how popular that terminology is.)<br>
<br>
--- On <b>Sat, 9/6/08, Lowlands-L List <i><<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a>></i></b>
wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> <br>
Subject: Language varieties</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I have long
been aware that some German-speaking linguists have expanded the qualifiers <i>Hoch...</i>
versus <i>Nieder...</i> or <i>Platt...</i> to other languages, including
examples like <i>Hochchinesisch</i> (for Standard Mandarin and its written
equivalent), also <i>Hochd</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">änisch</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> versus <i>Plattdänisch</i> (or "non-scientific" <i>Kartoffeldänisch</i>
"Potato Danish") ... all of which irks me no end. I had hoped that
this could be contained, but recently I noticed that several English writers
follow this tradition with "High" and "Low".<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron </span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> <br>
Subject: Language varieties<br>
<br>
Hey, Lee! Nice to hear from you. This seems to be the day of rare appearances.<br>
<br>
I heard of "High" and "Low" in this sense in the 1970s
also. I think some people actually thought it was "with it" to follow
that German trend.<br>
<br>
Lee, as you know, at one point Litvak ("Lithuanian Yiddish") was on
the way toward becoming "High Yiddish" (</span><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HE">הויך־יִידיש</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HE"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span> </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">hoykh-yidish</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">, perhaps because it
sounds more like German than do other dialects of Yiddish). The Holocaust put
an end to that.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br style="">
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