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L O W L A N D S - L - 21 October 2008 - Volume 03<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jonny</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language learning"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Dear
Lowlanners, Marcus Buck in special!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">As
far as I could experience our Marcus is (besides Reginhard e.a.) the one with
the greatest ambitions to save our Low Saxon language. So, Marcus, I've sent
you this mail on your own account, too, because this might be another,
realistic idea to help LS keeping alive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Having
been forced to look into my sons English book (at occasional vocabulary
training :-() I always found out that the authors of it have done some progress
compared with my time as a pupil. Today they try to build bridges from the
English vocabulary to the German one, when listing up a related word though it
might not be the obvious exact translation. For example E 'to turn' v.s. G
'turnen', E 'to keep' v.s. G 'Kiepe' ('bag') and so on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Well,
as you might remember I try to give him some basic knowledge concerning LS, and
thus I often complete this row of related words by any Low Saxon word, for
example E 'above' vs. LS 'baoben', which isn't obvious to him at the very first
glance. Why not complete this catalogue of related words including
'Plattdeutsch'?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Now,
Marcus, you might argue that it's probably impossible to convince the
publishing companies of those books to add Low Saxon analogies as
an supplemental help for the pupils. And I think, you'd pretty right
there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">But
what about the fact that by law there does exist, as you know, a
postulation that children growing up within the relevant areas have a
right to learn, at school!, this minority language of their heimat? Just a
handful of schools (I just know it from Hamburg)
try to follow this rule, but with very low acceptance and success.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Not
complete the books, the main books themselves - we wouldn't succeed
at that point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">But
- if we could convince the responsible persons, maybe in the secretary of
education in Hannover as well as the owners of 'Klett' or whateverelse, to
catch two flies with one trap?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Only
an additional 'Beiheft' with LS relations for vocabulary training, facultative
perhaps? For a low price (I'm thinking of ca. 10,--EURO)? I'm nearly sure this
would be accepted by a lot of teachers and parents in Northern
Germany.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Now
it's your term, man!</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Allerbest!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Jonny
Meibohm</span></p>
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