<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crhahn%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:SimSun;
panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;
mso-font-alt:宋体;
mso-font-charset:134;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"\@SimSun";
panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;
mso-font-charset:134;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
p
{mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.25in;
mso-header-margin:.5in;
mso-footer-margin:.5in;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:265694082;
mso-list-template-ids:-1692358704;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:ï‚·;
mso-level-tab-stop:.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l1
{mso-list-id:840463552;
mso-list-template-ids:1452454702;}
@list l2
{mso-list-id:1243641846;
mso-list-template-ids:-341775498;}
@list l3
{mso-list-id:2084715313;
mso-list-template-ids:262285840;}
@list l3:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:ï‚·;
mso-level-tab-stop:.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0in;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0in;}
-->
</style>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 01 April 2009 - Volume 01<br>
===========================================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
<br>
Subject: Administrativia<br>
<br>
[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] <br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Welcome to Lowlands-L in April of the year 2009! This posting is no April
Fool's joke.<br>
<br>
Nine new mates came on board since the beginning of March. Please find their
places of residence listed at the end of this.<br>
<br>
Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention to the following:<br>
<br>
<b>SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS<br><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">List Mail vs Private Mail<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Folks, please make
sure that you send private messages to me to my private address (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>),
especially if they could be taken as responses to what has been said in the
forum. If you do not make this distinction it could happen that your private
message ends up posted to the List.<br>
<br>
<b>Rejected Mail<br>
</b>Once in a while subscribers tell me that they receive List mail but that
their posting submissions keep being rejected. In most cases, when I
investigate this it turns out that a given subscriber has List mail forwarded
from his or her subscribed e-mail address to another e-mail address, and,
forgetting this, they try to send posting submissions from the address at which
they read the mail. The list server rejects mail from that address because it
is not subscribed. Also, some people try to unsubscribe or change their
subscription configurations from addresses that are not subscribed. The simple
solution is to address the list server only from the subscribed e-mail address.<br>
<br>
<b>Language Codes<br>
</b>In the subject line of each Lowlands-L issue you find language codes in
square brackets ( [ ] ). This indicate which language or languages are used in
that issue. I used to provide the key for the abbreviations in the masthead,
but that made for overly large mastheads. Here is the key. Please keep a copy
of it if you think you can not remember it.<br>
<br>
<b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[A]</span></b> Afrikaans, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[B]</span></b> Brabantish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[D]</span></b>
Dutch, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[E]</span></b> English, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[F]</span></b> Frisian, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[L]</span></b>
Limburgish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[LS]</span></b> Low Saxon (Low
German), <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[N]</span></b> Northumbrian, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[S]</span></b> Scots, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[Sh]</span></b>
Shetlandic, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[V]</span></b> (West) Flemish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[Z]</span></b> Zealandic. <br>
<br>
These are Lowlands
languages or dialect groups. The names of other languages appear written out in
English.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
<b>Projects<br>
</b>Please don't forget about our activities, especially now that we are
approaching our 14th anniversary (!): </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)<br>
April 15 will be the beginning of our 14<sup>th</sup> anniversary month,
so you might want to pay some extra attention this particular presentation.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Traditions
(</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Members' Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
</ul>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
All of them have growing numbers of visitors.<br>
<br>
If you have anything in mind for any of those presentations but lack confidence
for some reason or other, please bear in mind that assistance is available.
Please write to my private address (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>) to propose or ask and also to send your
works.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
<b>Rules</b><br>
A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So
here's a quick review: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Do not mix topics.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Stay with the subject line (and
don't add stuff to it) when you respond. It is only when you start a new
thread that you may suggest a subject line.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">When you respond to someone's
posting, please only quote the relevant portion. If you allow an entire
issue to dangle as a quote behind your response I will remove it, even if
your response does not make much sense then.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Please consult the rules and guidelines: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Another request: <br>
<br>
Please inform me if you route LL-L issues to or via email addresses other than
those you subscribed. Right now, once again I am getting failure reports
concerning email addresses that are not subscribed. This is reallyÂ
annoying, because I have no idea whose they are, so I can't do anything about
it.<br style="">
<br style="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Membership<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">As most of you know
in the meantime, our email addresses are now visible only to subscribers. I
hope this will encourage more of you to come forward and participate in our
discussions. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">We send the postings in Unicode
(UTF-8) format. You need to switch your view mode to it if you want to see
all "special" characters. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You must always give us your
name, given name and family name.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">If you forward Lowlands-L mail
to another (alias) account, please give us the address of that account. We
need to identify it so we can do something in case we get error messages
from that server. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You must credit the writers of
anything you quote. "Lowlands-L wrote:" simply won't do. Several
of you are still not doing this.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Please continue already
existing subject headers (rather than making up your own for the same
thing). If you do begin a new topic, please make sure
"Lowlands-L" or "LL-L" is in the subject line as well.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS
IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Many beginners, but also a few
older hands, forget to provide their names with their posting submission.
Please remember that anonymous posting is not an option, that you are obligated
to give your given and family name, even if you do not put them right next
to each other. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li></ol>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Even some people who have been with us for a while
persistently ignore the following rules: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Keep subjects separate: Only
one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Stick to the subject title: Do
not change the topic name in your responses. Just stick with the one we
have, even if you think it doesn't apply or is silly. I will change it if
I think it needs to be. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Edit quotes: If you hit the
"reply" button and simply write your response before or after an
unedited, complete quoted LL-L issue, please do not complain to me that I
have removed the quoted text in the published version. It is proper email
behavior to quote only the portions that are relevant to your response. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Give credit: Let us know who
the authors of quoted text portions are. If you just hit the
"reply" button, it will automatically give
"Lowlands-L" as the author. That will not do. You must be more
specific, and you owe authors the courtesy of crediting them by name. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Sign off: If you feel like
leaving the List, please do not send the sign-off command to the posting
address or to my personal address.<br style="">
<br style="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li></ol>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Change of Address</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
You do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address changes.
It suffices if you send me (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>)
a message giving us the old address and the new address. If you don't remember
under which address you were first subscribed, it will suffice if you give us
only the new address.<br>
<br>
<b>Temporary Absence</b><br>
Before you take a trip or for some other reason need to stop LL-L mail arriving
for a given length of time, please write to us (<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>)
to let us know the date you want mail to be stopped and the date you want mail
to be resumed. As some of our members can attest, this has been working really
well, certainly beats the old, crude method of signing off and on again. Once
in a while people find themselves unsubscribed without notice. Some of them
immediately suspect the worst: that I have "booted them out" for some
infraction or other. (I know this for sure only about those that contact me.
But it happens again and again and involves even the nicest, best-behaved
people.) Please do not jump to this conclusion unless you have received prior
reprimands and warnings (which occurred very rarely, not at all for well over one
year). If you find yourself disconnected from Lowlands-L, the reason is most
likely that the automated server has unsubscribed your address because of
repeated "bouncing," i.e., because your mail servers keep informing
the list server that you cannot be reached or is filled above quota. Most of
the time this is due to temporary disconnection.<br>
<br>
Sometimes the reason is that a subscriber's junk mail filter (or
"spam" filter) has not been "told" to exempt Lowlands-L
mail, which is why our mailings do not arrive in your in-boxes. So, if
Lowlands-L mail stops coming, please first check your "spam" filters
and adjust them if necessary, and only contact me about the problem if all of
the above fails. Should you indeed be disconnected, please write to me or
resubmit an application. I'll be more than happy to bring you swiftly back to
the fold. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and
cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and future! <br>
<br>
Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn<br>
Co-Founder & Chief Editor<br>
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><br>
Lowlands-L (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net</a>)
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">_____<br>
Welcome to the four of who joined us since the beginning of March 2009! They
live in the following places:<br>
<br>
<b>Belgium</b> (België, Belgique, Belgien):<br>
    Antwerp (Antwerpen):<br>
         Kontich [1]<br>
<b>Germany</b> (Deutschland):<br>
    North-Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrheinwestfalen):<br>
         Bonn [1]<br>
<b>Poland</b> (Polska, Pòlskô):<br>
    Pomeranian Voivodeship <br>
    (Województwo pomorskie, Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò):<br>
         Gdynia (Gdiniô) [1]<br>
<b>United Kingdom</b>:<br>
    England:<br>
         Hampshire:<br>
             Â
Winchester [1]<br>
         Greater London:<br>
             Â
London [2]<br>
    Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann, Norlin Airlann):<br>
         Antrim (Aontroim):<br>
       Â
      Bushmills (Muileann na Buaise) [1]<br>
    Scotland (Alba):<br>
         Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd
Obar Dheathain):<br>
             Â
Banff (Banbh) [1]<br>
<b>United States of America</b>:<br>
    Oregon:<br>
         Damascus [1]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
•
<p>
==============================END===================================
<p>
* Please submit postings to lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org.
<p>
* Postings will be displayed unedited in digest form.
<p>
* Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
<p>
* Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l")
<p>
are to be sent to listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org or at
<p>
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.
<p>
*********************************************************************