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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">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" 2008.12.11 (06)
[E/German]</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beste
Marcus,</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 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new,monospace;">you
wrote:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: teal;">Okay,
Hockereestraat was kind of (I am not even sure this is the right spelling, it's
a relatively new commercial area and not yet in any directories and not visible
on Google Maps for example. In the press it was spelled Hökereestraat
sometimes).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Yes,
I fully agree. This seems to be a stumbling block.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new,monospace;">The
same thing I often have to experience with my own address: 'Dingwörden'
(meaning 'a terp where people meet for their council', literal a
'place to think', probably from OS 'thenkian') mostly becomes
something like 'Dink-Würden' or 'Denkwürden' ;-)!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: teal;">If
this kind of commerce would be settling there, I could hardly understand, why
the names should pose problems, cause they would mostly have regional customers
and regional suppliers.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
don't fully agree at <em>this</em>
point. The greater part of East-Frisia is a region of extreme low oeconomical
structure. They still have got the reputation of being 'behind the moon', and
so we have to understand and to endorse all of their efforts to
take part in globalizing.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: teal;">PS:
You too mentioned the move to Frisian names. Actually I am not a friend of such
moves. I am all supporting the move to fully recognize Frisian and give it all
the same rights, but that should not mean to abolish the Dutch name. It's okay
to write both names on the town signs or even to write the Frisian name in big
letters and the Dutch name in small, and it's okay to write official documents
in Frisian. But the Dutch name shouldn't be erased. Why can't towns have two
official names? One Frisian, one Dutch? "Official" doesn't mean
"only one".</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
wonder why we yet didn't hear any opinion from our Western neighbours.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Though
this affair shouldn't be our business but a Dutch one only I dare to write that
I by and large agree with you again.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Where
would it lead to if the Frisians over there really stop to aspect Dutch as
their first and official language? Perhaps next generation children just able
to speak a poor Standard Dutch? I just remember the words of an elder
East-Frisian collegue who often used to say 'Skall niags öberdreben waorn'
('nothing should be overdone'), or, with the words of another friend from the Lower Rhine area 'Allet, wat met <em><b>zu</b></em> anfängt, is' nit jut'
('everything starting with <strong><i>too</i></strong>
isn't good'). </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;
have a nice weekend!</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 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new,monospace;">Jonny
Meibohm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></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;">PS: <span style="color: teal;">Just as you try to stir fears of invented Low Laxon. I don't
know no single example of "re-invented" Low Saxon names. Please give
examples.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
like to stir - both in people's minds as well as in a good 'Kehdinger
Hochzeits-Suppe' (a regional recipe of a soup from ox meat - cooked from
minimum one pound meat for each person!) ;-)!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">But
these really <strong><i>are</i></strong>
my fears! Just remember 'Lüttensee' vs. 'Lütjensee'. Ein
Schildbürger-Verhalten, welches die ganze plattdeutsche Sache doch nur ins
Lächerliche zieht! (A behavior of fools suited to make the matter of our
Low Saxon ridiculous!)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new,monospace;">DS</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>