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L O W L A N D S - L - 11 December 2008 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">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 politics" 2008.12.10 (01)
[D/E/LS]</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beste
Lowlanners,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yesterday
I sent you a link about the intention to change street- and
placenames into Frisian in Fryslan/Netherlands: <a href="http://www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nieuws/regio/article4109509.ece" target="_blank">http://www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nieuws/regio/article4109509.ece</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Today
Piet Bult (who got a copy of that yesterday's mail) sent me an
article from an insert of the same 'Leeuwarder Courant' just showing
the other thing in East-Frisian/Germany (i.e. change of Low Saxon street names into Standard
German). I found some additional links in German newspapers: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.szon.de/news/kultur/aktuell/200811171040.html?_from=rss" target="_blank">http://www.szon.de/news/kultur/aktuell/200811171040.html?_from=rss</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.ostfriesische-nachrichten.de/neu/index_volltext.asp?ID=24003" target="_blank">http://www.ostfriesische-nachrichten.de/neu/index_volltext.asp?ID=24003</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let
me give a short summary to those of you who aren't familiar with German:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
community of <em>'Großefehn'</em>
in East Friesland/Germany decided to change some Low Saxon street names <strong>within a new commercial area</strong>
of their village into Standard German because they experienced that customers
and drivers of any delivery services, who don't speak LS, have difficulties to
find their addressees.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">By
the scandalised leader of the German 'Frisian Party' this step is suspected to
be against the spirit of the times - in other regions of Northern Germany
people try to add, sometimes to re-invent the Low Saxon names of their
locations. And furtheron he fears that this affair could lead to the
result that the EU will get everything out of this matter and make a
decision about any regularized standard for new street names.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I'll
enjoy to hear your opinions!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Allerbest!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Jonny Meibohm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span></p>