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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 19 February 2009 - Volume 05<br>
===========================================</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Antero Helasvuo</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:antero.helasvuo@welho.com">antero.helasvuo@welho.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language diversity" 2009.02.19 (02)
[E]</span><br>
<br>
Lowlands-L List kirjoitti:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">> From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">>
Subject: Language diversity<br>
><br>
> Dear Lowlanders,<br>
><br>
> For all of you that missed it, the very interesting TV interview with<br>
> the linguist K. David Harrison is now accessible on You Tube:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLYo8zQOVs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLYo8zQOVs</a><br>
><br>
> Harrison is the author of the book /When Languages Die : The<br>
> Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human<br>
> Knowledge/, New York City: Oxford University Press, which in 2008 came<br>
> out in paperback form (ISBN-10: 0195372069, ISBN-13: 978-0195372069,<br>
> US $17.95).</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hi, Ron.<br>
<br>
Thanks a million for this highly interesting link. Of course many of us<br>
"missed" this interview for obvious reasons. Thank Web, we can see it<br>
now. I really hope Harrison's point, that he
so eloquently expressed,<br>
would be understood as widely as possible and also acted upon. Comparing<br>
languages to monuments of architecture was a real eye opener, but his<br>
observation that each and every language, no matter how small or only<br>
living in oral form,contains a vast amount of knowledge that you can<br>
only access by learning the particular language, is perhaps even more<br>
important.<br>
<br>
Of course there are efforts that are in harmony with what Harrison
is<br>
pursuing: our Lowlands-project for instance. I'd like to introduce to<br>
you one more: My old friend the Dutch poet Arjen Duinker has started a<br>
project hoping that one of his poems would be translated to as many<br>
languages as possible. He did the same some ten years ago with his poem<br>
"De steen bloeit", and the result was - I think - a couple of hundred<br>
versions. So have a look, everybody is invited:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.dok.info/index.php?cat=nieuwsitems&nieuws_id=321" target="_blank">http://www.dok.info/index.php?cat=nieuwsitems&nieuws_id=321</a><br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
Antero<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
--<br>
Antero Helasvuo<br>
Luutnantinpolku 9 C 20<br>
00410 HELSINKI<br>
FINLAND<br>
<br>
TEL +358 9 5872345<br>
<a href="mailto:antero.helasvuo@welho.com">antero.helasvuo@welho.com</a></span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">----------<br><br></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">><br>Subject: Language diversity</span><br><br>Thanks, Antero.<br><br>I'll see if I can help with that project, and I hope others will too.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>