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L O W L A N D S - L - 16 November 2008 - Volume 03<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.11.15 (02)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Elsie,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">"Deliberate
refusal" was perhaps a poor choice of words! "Subconcious
resistance" might be a better explanation, altough I accept that your
purely linguistic reason probably has more significance.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">However I
have encountered similar "understanding refusals"; I once suggested
to some Cook Islanders that they might find Tahitian fairly easy to follow and
the idea was dismissed with comments suggesting that they disliked
the very idea.  Yet Cook's Tahitian cabin boy could apparently
converse with New Zealand Maori, and Rarotongans readily admit similarity with
that.  I only know a little of any of them, but I don't see too much
difference.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Whether or
not Afrikaans/Dutch is a good example, I still believe that such
nationalistic emphasis of difference over similarity is a real phenomenon.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul<br style="">
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