<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 01 May 2009 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)</span><br>
===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> <br>
Subject: Resources</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;">Dear Lowlanders,</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;">In case you are not aware of it already, I would like to draw your attention to another language education effort on the Web:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://omniglot.com">Omniglot</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://omniglot.com">omniglot.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">)</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;">This is a splendid and popular resource for "lingophiles", both seasoned and budding (staying with todays May 1 spring theme). Like our Web resources, it is a work in constant progress. It introduces the languages of the world and focuses on their scripts. It provides language samples, a passage from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wherever possible, some of them with sound. Also, there are numerous lists of common phrases, some of them with sound files as well. In addition, there are things like blogs and quizzes. It is a language lover's playground and fountain of youth, especially as far as scripts and orthographies are concerned.</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;">The </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> routinely links to Omniglot articles. I myself have been using Omniglot as a resource in my research for Web publications. Furthermore, I have been helping the effort with a few corrections and additions and I have found Simon Ager (<a href="mailto:feedback@omniglot.com">feedback@omniglot.com</a>), the originator and owner, most gracious, accommodating and openminded. (It probably helps that there is an assumed "language nerd" bond.) Simon welcomes corrections, suggestions and additions in order to constantly improve the site.</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;">I have made Simon aware of our Lowlands-L effort, especially of our </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">Anniversary Presentation</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, and he says he is quite impressed by it. In fact, he kindly dedicated today's blog to introducing it: </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.omniglot.com/blog/">www.omniglot.com/blog/</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The long and the short of it is that I very much encourage you to check out Omniglot. I feel sure that the majority of you will like it and return to it as a regular resource.</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;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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