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L O W L A N D S - L - 23 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(200, 137, 0);">Arend Victorie</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:victorie.a@home.nl">victorie.a@home.nl</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language learning" 2008.10.22 (04)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Moi Marcus,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">An 't ende van de vieftiger jaoren was 't in 't onderwies
zo esteld, dat een onderwiezer die veur de klasse stund,gien enkele klaankvorm
van 't nedersaksisch in zien stemme mug hebben.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Het mus zuuver Algemien Beschaafd Nèderlaands weden. Was
dat niet zo, dan kreeg hij niet iens een kaans umme veur de klasse te staon,
dan weurde hij gewoon of-ewèzen.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">De nedersaksische taal was niet goed genog umme staand te
holden, 't was plat ordinair en boers. Zo weurde 't tenminste verkondigd in de
grote steden in 't westen. En 't westen maakte de regels.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Goodgaon,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Arend Victorie </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></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 learning<br>
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Judging by my own experience, Jonny is quite correct in saying that the 1950s (and
the 1960s) were the dark age for the Low Saxon language in Germany in that it was
at least indirectly suppressed. Western Germany, especially relatively wealthy Hamburg,
was experiencing its "economic miracle", was intent on creating unity of any kind in the form of uniformity,
and this meant dismantling diversity for the sake of participating in global competition. <br><br>People
were led to believe that Low Saxon was detrimental to children's education. The
little Low Saxon content there was in schools was buried in the form of tidbits and ditties
in local history books. (It probably did not help that our post-war Northern schoolbooks had been planned under the supervision of the British occupation forces that were not particularly sensitive to or knowledgeable about Northern Germany's linguistic and cultural diversity themselves.) Many teachers were not equipped to deal with even those tidbits and tended to skip them, especially those that were not from the region themselves. In other
words, Low Saxon content was considered negligible, fluff, tokenism. None of my
teachers ever pointed out similarities between English and Low Saxon. That was for us
to discover ourselves.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span></p>