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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 - 24 February 2009 - Volume 02<br>
===========================================</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Grammar"</span><br>
<br>
Beste Mike,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You wrote:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></i></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">R/R wrote:</span></span></i><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
> Switzerland
has four <u>different</u> languages.</span></i><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></i><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
As opposed to Serbia, Croatia and
Bosnia-Hercegovina which have three <u>SAME</u> languages! ;-) (maybe
by now Montenegirn is a fourth?)</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">They h¨¤ve
been the same. Until people started drawing borders and the big
"divorce" began in former Yugoslavia. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We
experienced something similar in Northern Belgium.
As soon as you split Brabant (Noord-Brabant vs. Antwerp/Vlaams-Brabant),
Vlaanderen (Zeeuws-Vlaanderen vs. West/Oost-Vlaanderen) and (to a lesser extent)
Limburg, you will have different communities,
watching different tv-stations, reading different newspapers and getting
different education. People focus on different things, in short: they grow
apart. Their dialects as well. Which means, that even in today's world of
greater mobility and regiolects instead of dialects, a state border is still
very much what it is: a border, a divide.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I remember
reading a study about how dialects along the Belgo-Dutch border were still very
similar until mid 20th century. Dialects gradually changed from one village to
another (walking distance defined one's world) and there was no strong
centralizing force/culture that would set an example or become a standard. Then
quite suddenly, the scale on which culture was happening became much bigger.
Radio and TV definitely changed that landscape. The linguistic gap between
South and North started widening. The continuum was torn apart. The Flemish
regiolect now stops south of the border and the Dutch one halts at the other
side.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Similarly,
if ever the Internet would split the world in half, I'm quite sure this would
have devastating effects on culture too. The levelling effect would be
tremendous, whereas now we have something that almost grew in an organic way.
OK, there's chaos as well, but that's good I think.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Luc
Hellinckx, Halle</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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<br>
From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">G TIGHE</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:tighe@sympatico.ca">tighe@sympatico.ca</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language diversity" 2009.02.23 (02)
[E]</span><br>
<br></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">'Many Scots who speak English do so with a Scottish accent.'</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<br></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">And inversely my Australian wife assures me, that after over 30
years in</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Australia, when I revert to Scots on visiting Edinburgh</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
I do so with an Australian accent I did not even know I had.</span></div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal">
</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Regards</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
Tom Mc Rae</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
Hi Folk:<br>
<br>
After 40 years in Canada,
I am readily identified as Scottish. However on returning to Scotland I am
heard to be Canadian.<br>
My first days here I spent a lot of effort repeating my words. I then thought I
spoke well, and clearly the Queen's English.<br>
I realized later that it was less my accent and more my vocabulary.<br>
I saw the licht, I had discovered that bonny beasty, the guid Scots tongue.<br>
<br>
kind regards<br>
<br>
Gerald<br>
<br>
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<br>
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>><br>
Subject: Language diversity<br>
<br>
Hello, Gerald! Long time no hear.<br>
<br>
It sure is a treat.<br><br>Luc, what you wrote regarding "intralingual" alienation due to political boundaries and subsequent national centralization is certainly true in many, many cases throughout the world. Other such cases are the Low Frankish and Low Saxon varieties of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, most pronounced the borders between the Dutch-speaking world and the German-speaking world.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br>
<br>
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<br>
From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language diversity" 2009.02.23 (06)
[E]</span><br>
<br>
On 24/02/2009, at 8:39 AM, <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">James Wilson</span> <<a href="mailto:jawi2300@gmail.com" target="_blank">jawi2300@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tom, do people ask you whether you are Scots when you are in </span>Edinburgh<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">?</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
</span><br style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">No problems
in that area. Mind you first day there, after over 30 years, when riding a bus
there were two wmen behind me speaking a langiuage I thought was of
Scandinavean origin. As I listened further I realised it was brioad Edinburgh.</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; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Regards</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tom
Mc Rae</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Brisbane</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">AUSTRALIA</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">"Oh
wad some power the Giftie gie us,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tae
see oorsels as ithers see us</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Robert
Burns</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
</span>----------<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="hccdpe"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language diversity" 2009.02.23 (06)
[E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Hi James,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">"'But
it's our choice in the end, nobody's forcing us, not anymore.'</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Yes there is, you! And many others of a similar attitude. "</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You seem to
have the impression that I'm anti-dialect in general and anti-Geordie in
particular. Nothing could be further from the truth. All my
comments are observations. I am saying that Standard English has
increasingly taken over in many areas where it wasn't prevalent; that's a
statement of what I see, not approval.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I didn't
beat my Geordie colleague with a big stick till he stopped
using dialectial words, he made that decision himself. That
makes sense in Nottingham, where he lives, but it doesn't 30 miles north of Newcastle, yet he doesn't
use them there either. But that's his choice, nobody else's. Wrong
choice in my opinion, but, contrary to your assumption, I'm in no position to
force anybody - nor do I want to. Incidentally, why do imagine the world
would jump to obey the linguistic diktats of a geotechnical engineer in Derby, even if he gave
any?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These are
observations; you may not like the observations, I don't in many respects, but
I'm not going to stop saying things just because people don't like to hear
them.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Why on
Earth would I be envious of people responding favourably to Geordie accents on
the telephone? I do. But every call-centre speaker I hear, whether their
accents are Geordie, Scouse, Scots of various types or indeed Delhi or Mumbai,
use those accents to pronounce Standard English, because a Geordie and a
Mumbaian (is that a word?) have a better chance of understanding each other if
they do.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Personally,
I'd be happier if somebody else's speech had been adopted as the World
Language; there are far, far more speakers of English outside England than in
it, and I believe that much of the loss of regional speech can be laid at the
door of that fact. But I've got to live with it. And I repeat, if
people want to preserve their dialects, they'd better get on with it, and not
wait for orders from me, cos I ain't giving any.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
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<br>
From: <a href="mailto:atdelange@iburst.co.za">atdelange@iburst.co.za</a><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language diversity" </span><br>
<br>
<span class="spelle">Liewe</span> <span class="spelle">Laaglanders</span>,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Ek</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">skryf</span> in Afrikaans <span class="grame">om</span> <span class="spelle">vir</span> <span class="spelle">mede</span> <span class="spelle">laaglanders</span>
‘n <span class="spelle">bietjie</span> <span class="spelle">oefening</span> <span class="spelle">daarin</span> <span class="spelle">te</span> gee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="grame"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Wees</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">asseblief</span> <span class="spelle">versigtig</span>. Die <span class="spelle">kwessie</span> van <span class="grame">meer</span> as <span class="spelle">een</span> <span class="spelle">taal</span> in ‘n <span class="spelle">nasie</span> <span class="spelle">waarvan</span> <span class="spelle">een</span>
die <span class="spelle">botoon</span> <span class="spelle">voer</span>, is <span class="spelle">vol</span> <span class="spelle">slaggate</span>. <span class="grame">Maar
</span><span class="spelle">moenie</span><span class="grame"> </span><span class="spelle">wegdyns</span><span class="grame"> </span><span class="spelle">nie</span><span class="grame">.</span> <span class="spelle">Dit</span> is net die <span class="spelle">toekoms</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">verander</span>
<span class="grame">kan</span> word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Kinders</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">wat</span> van <span class="spelle">babadae</span> in die <span class="grame">huis</span> ‘n <span class="spelle">taal</span> <span class="spelle">praat</span>
<span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span> die <span class="spelle">hooftaal</span> is <span class="spelle">nie</span>, leer <span class="spelle">om</span> in die <span class="spelle">huistaal</span> <span class="spelle">te</span> <span class="spelle">luister</span>, <span class="spelle">te</span>
<span class="spelle">verstaan</span> en <span class="spelle">te</span> dink. </span><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hulle</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span class="spelle">ervarings</span>
<span class="spelle">ontluik</span> (“emerge”) tot <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span>
(“tacit knowledge”, <span class="spelle">Polanyi</span>). <span class="spelle">Hy</span>
<span class="spelle">skryf</span> “we know more than what we speak”. </span><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Om</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> van <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span>
<span class="grame">te</span> <span class="spelle">ontluik</span> tot <span class="spelle">vormkennis</span> (<span class="spelle">dit</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">gepraat</span> en <span class="spelle">geskryf</span> <span class="spelle">kan</span> word) in <span class="spelle">dieselfde</span> <span class="spelle">huistaal</span> is ‘n reuse <span class="spelle">taak</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Om</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">eerder</span> <span class="spelle">ontluikings</span> van <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span> tot <span class="spelle">vormkennis</span> in die <span class="spelle">hooftaal</span> <span class="grame">te</span> <span class="spelle">verwag</span>
is <span class="spelle">waansinnig</span>, <span class="spelle">iets</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> as <span class="spelle">taalontmagtiging</span> <span class="spelle">bekend</span> <span class="spelle">staan</span>. <span class="spelle">Dit</span>
is <span class="spelle">omdat</span> <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span> van die
<span class="spelle">hooftaal</span> <span class="spelle">naas</span> die <span class="spelle">huistaal</span> <span class="spelle">nodig</span> is. <span class="grame">Dit </span><span class="spelle">klink</span><span class="grame"> </span><span class="spelle">teenstrydig</span><span class="grame">.</span> <span class="spelle">Maar</span>
lank <span class="spelle">voordat</span> die kind <span class="spelle">taalkunde</span>
<span class="spelle">moet</span> <span class="spelle">bestudeer</span>, <span class="spelle">moet</span> die kind <span class="spelle">ervarings</span> en <span class="spelle">dus</span> <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span> van die <span class="spelle">huistaal</span> se <span class="spelle">werking</span> <span class="spelle">besit</span>. <span class="spelle">Sou</span> die kind in die <span class="spelle">hooftaal</span> (<span class="spelle">sonder</span> <span class="spelle">stomkennis</span> <span class="spelle">daarvan</span>) <span class="spelle">probeer</span> <span class="spelle">praat</span> of <span class="grame">skryf,</span> is die <span class="spelle">uitkoms</span> ten <span class="spelle">beste</span> <span class="spelle">papegaaiagtig</span>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Taalontmagtiging</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">vind</span> <span class="spelle">plaas</span> as <span class="spelle">gevolg</span>
van <span class="spelle">verskeie</span> <span class="spelle">redes</span>: <span class="spelle">kultureel</span>, polities, <span class="spelle">ekonomies</span> en
<span class="spelle">godsdienstig</span>. <span class="grame">Taalontmagtiging </span><span class="spelle">belemmer</span><span class="grame"> </span><span class="spelle">skeppende</span><span class="grame"> en </span><span class="spelle">ondersoekende</span><span class="grame"> </span><span class="spelle">denke</span><span class="grame">.</span> <span class="spelle">Taalontmagtiging</span> <span class="spelle">verskraal</span> die <span class="spelle">drang</span> <span class="grame">na</span> <span class="spelle">vryheid</span>,
<span class="spelle">selfverwesentliking</span> en <span class="spelle">rentmeesterskap</span>.
<span class="spelle">Taalontmagtiging</span> is die <span class="spelle">grootste</span>
<span class="spelle">faktor</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> tot <span class="spelle">misdaad</span> en <span class="spelle">sosiale</span> <span class="spelle">verval</span> lei <span class="spelle">onder</span> minder <span class="spelle">gegoede</span> <span class="spelle">mense</span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Dit</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">neem</span> <span class="spelle">twee</span> of <span class="grame">meer</span>
<span class="spelle">geslagte</span> <span class="spelle">om</span> <span class="spelle">taalontmagtiging</span> <span class="spelle">om</span> <span class="spelle">te</span> <span class="spelle">keer</span>. <span class="spelle">Selfs</span>
<span class="spelle">dan</span> <span class="spelle">moet</span> die <span class="spelle">huistaal</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span> <span class="spelle">gedwing</span>
word <span class="grame">om</span> <span class="spelle">aan</span> die <span class="spelle">standaard</span> <span class="spelle">vorm</span> <span class="spelle">daarvan</span> <span class="spelle">te</span> <span class="spelle">voldoen</span>
<span class="spelle">nie</span>. <span class="spelle">Dit</span> lei tot ‘n <span class="spelle">verskuilde</span> <span class="spelle">taalontmagtiging</span>. <span class="spelle">Daar</span> is <span class="grame">fyn</span> <span class="spelle">nuanses</span>
in <span class="spelle">enige</span> <span class="spelle">omgewing</span> se <span class="spelle">dialek</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span>
in die <span class="spelle">standaard</span> <span class="spelle">vorm</span> <span class="spelle">daarvan</span> <span class="spelle">voorkom</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Na my <span class="spelle">oordeel</span> <span class="spelle">doen</span> <span class="spelle">enige</span> <span class="spelle">mens</span>
<span class="spelle">wat</span> die <span class="spelle">verskeidenheid</span> <span class="spelle">tussen</span> tale en <span class="spelle">binne</span> ‘n <span class="spelle">taal</span> <span class="spelle">onderdruk</span> <span class="spelle">vir</span> <span class="spelle">watter</span> <span class="spelle">rede</span>
<span class="spelle">ook</span> al, net so ‘n <span class="spelle">groot</span> <span class="spelle">skade</span> as <span class="spelle">mense</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">biodiversiteit</span> <span class="spelle">verskraal</span>. <span class="spelle">Miskien</span> <span class="spelle">moet</span> <span class="spelle">ons</span> begin <span class="grame">om</span>
‘n <span class="spelle">tegniese</span> term <span class="spelle">soos</span> <span class="spelle">linguadiversiteit</span> <span class="spelle">te</span> <span class="spelle">gebruik</span>. <span class="spelle">Ek</span> dink <span class="spelle">dat</span> die <span class="spelle">aanvoeling</span> <span class="spelle">vir</span> <span class="spelle">linguadiversiteit</span> op die LL <span class="spelle">poslys</span> van die <span class="spelle">beste</span> <span class="spelle">ter</span> <span class="spelle">w¨ºreld</span> is. <span class="spelle">Mag</span> <span class="spelle">ons</span> net <span class="spelle">daarop</span>
<span class="spelle">verbeter</span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Onlangs</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> <span class="spelle">het</span> UNESCO ‘n <span class="spelle">lys</span> <span class="spelle">gepubliseer</span> van <span class="grame">meer</span> as 2500 tale <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">krities</span> <span class="spelle">bedreig</span>
is en <span class="spelle">dus</span> <span class="spelle">binnekort</span> <span class="spelle">kan</span> <span class="spelle">uitsterf</span>. <span class="spelle">Dit</span>
is <span class="spelle">skrikwekkend</span>, <span class="spelle">enige</span> <span class="spelle">dag</span> so erg as die <span class="spelle">geval</span> met <span class="spelle">mikrobes</span>, <span class="spelle">plante</span> en <span class="spelle">diere</span>. Hoe <span class="grame">kan</span> <span class="spelle">dit</span>
<span class="spelle">vermy</span> word? <span class="spelle">Deur</span> <span class="grame">te</span> <span class="spelle">eis</span> <span class="spelle">dat</span>
<span class="spelle">meertaligheid</span> <span class="spelle">oor</span> die <span class="spelle">ganse</span> <span class="spelle">samelewing</span>, <span class="spelle">veral</span> <span class="spelle">openbare</span> <span class="spelle">instellings</span> <span class="spelle">soos</span> <span class="spelle">hopitale</span>, <span class="spelle">howe</span> en <span class="spelle">skole</span>, <span class="spelle">eerbiedig</span> <span class="spelle">sal</span> word. <span class="spelle">Deur</span> <span class="spelle">verder</span> <span class="spelle">mense</span> <span class="spelle">aan</span>
die <span class="spelle">kaak</span> <span class="grame">te</span> <span class="spelle">stel</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> net <span class="spelle">een</span>,
<span class="spelle">oorheersende</span> <span class="spelle">taal</span> <span class="spelle">wil</span> <span class="spelle">gebruik</span>. </span><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Moedig</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span class="spelle">aan</span> <span class="spelle">eerder</span> as <span class="grame">om</span> <span class="spelle">te</span>
bots.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Met <span class="grame">ander</span> <span class="spelle">woorde</span>,
<span class="spelle">mense</span> se <span class="spelle">gesindheid</span> <span class="spelle">oor</span> <span class="spelle">taal</span> <span class="spelle">moet</span>
<span class="spelle">geleidelik</span> <span class="spelle">verander</span> word
tot <span class="spelle">erkenning</span> en <span class="spelle">bevordering</span>
van die <span class="spelle">verskeidenheid</span> <span class="spelle">daarvan</span>.
<span class="spelle">Verandering</span> <span class="spelle">oor</span> <span class="spelle">gesindhede</span> <span class="grame">kan</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span>
<span class="spelle">oornag</span> <span class="spelle">gebeur</span> <span class="spelle">nie</span>. <span class="spelle">Dit</span> <span class="spelle">verg</span>
‘n <span class="spelle">lewenslange</span> <span class="spelle">toewyding</span>
van <span class="spelle">almal</span> <span class="spelle">wat</span> <span class="spelle">daaroor</span> <span class="spelle">begaan</span> is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="grame"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">At de Lange, Pretoria.</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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