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===========================================</span><br></div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>From: <span><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Mark Dreyer</span></span></span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Language maintanance" 2008.11.03 (02)
[A/E]</span></span>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Dear Stan</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Subject:
LL-L "Language maintanance"</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">A man after
my own heart - here goes:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Laat ek eerstens om verskoning vra dat ek die gesprek
intree, maar ek vind dit heel prikkelend.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Let me
firstly ask your pardon that I intruded in your conversation, but I find it
wholly stimulating.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Ek het die einste verslag gelees, Elsie, en dit het my
ernstig omgekrap, nê, en toe bedink ek my: Ek hou hoegenaamd</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">I read that
very report, Elsie, & it seriously disturbed me, & then I thought to
myself: I
totally dislike Academic</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">niks van Akademiese Afrikaans nie! Dit verbaas my
geensins, Jacquie, dat u daarmee sukkel. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Wat my betref kan
dit </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Afrikaans! It
astonishes me not at all, Jacquie, that you struggle with it. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">As far
as it concerns</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">met alle gemak in die duisternis heen. My niggie Gillian,
half-Iers, half Skots met 'n Afrikaner man, is 'n vertaler in die</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">me it
may go in peace into the darkness. My nieece Gillian, half Iris, half
Scots with an Afrikaner husband, is a</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">hoëgeregshof, en in haar eie tyd doen sy vertaal- en
redaksiewerk in en tussen Engels en Afrikaans. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">'n Groot deel van</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">translator
in the supreme court, & in her free time does translation & editing
between English & Afrikaans. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">A great </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">haar inkomste 'melk' sy uit die ontleding van 'Akademiese
Afrikaans in AB Afrikaans, en sy haat dit. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Die</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">deal of her
income she 'milks' from the interpretation from 'Academic Afrikaans' to
'Generally Accepted Afrikaans &</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">hoof-sondaars is na-graadse studente met hulle tesis in
die die Administrasie- of Bestuur-kunde (Ha!). </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Uit die</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">she hates
it. The chief-sinners are postgraduate students with their theses on
Administration & Management (Ha!).</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Letterkunde as sulks kom daar nie vir haar werk nie, maar
dis te verwagte. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Mynsinsiens
is daar wel 'n nypende nood </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">from
Literary work as such no work comes to her, but that is to be expected. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">In my
opinion there is a 'nipping' need</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">vir tersiere-vlak studie in die Letterkunde, en hier moet
dit in die betrokke taal geskied, hetsy Afrikaans of Hongaars.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">for
tertiary-level studies in Literature, & here it must happen in the relevant
language, whether Afrikaans or Hungarian,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">waarookal
in die Wêreld dit bestudeer word, Finland of die Fillipyne.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">wheresover
in the World it is studied, Finland
or the Phillippines.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Ja, laat Engels die tegniese en wetenskaplike taal van
die 21ste Eeu wees. Hier is 'n hond van 'n taal, 'n ware brak,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Yes, let
English be the technical & scientific language of the 21st Century. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Here is
a dog of a tongue, a veritable</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">en dit sal nie seer maak nie - en tog: Ek hou van 'n
brak. 'n Mens kan Engels net so ergelik martel. Ek het net sulke</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">mongrel,
& it won't hurt - & yet: I like a mongrel. People can torture English
just as brutally. </span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">I have read just such</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">strond gelees. Nog iets, wat my in my inneste laat warm
voel oor Afrikaas is dat <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">egte</span></strong>
tegniese taal, <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">ware</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">shite.
Something more, what warms me to my innermost about Afrikaans is that <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">genuine</span></strong> technical language, <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">true</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">wetenskaplike terminologie, kan mens sonder moeite in
enigeiets tussen motorwektuigkunde en radiosterrekunde,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">scientific
terminology, people can express without difficulty in anything between
motor-mechanics & radio-astronomy,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">wiskunde en plantekunde sonder moeite handhaaf. Hulle wat
die Taal daartoe gestel het, en hulle werk, God laat dit </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Mathematics
& botony. Those that enabled the Language to do this, & their work, God
let it not</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">tog nie vergete nie!</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">be forgotton!</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Yrs,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark</span></p>