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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Roger Hondshoven</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span></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="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.06.05 (03) [NL]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hallo Roland,</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;">Bedankt voor de reactie. Ik was ermee bekend
(ik heb namelijk een paar West-Vlaamse vrienden) dat het West-Vlaams
ook gespaard is van die vreselijke '</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">de</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">-vormen' en dat de </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">je-</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">vormen tot de gewone spreektaal behoren</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;">Vriendelijke groeten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
 </div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger Hondshoven</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Diest (East-Brabant) Belgium</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Roger Hondshoven</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.06.05 (08) [EN]</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 Diederik,</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;">Thanks for giving your view on this
issue. Of course, I had expected dissenting opinions. I simply gave my
personal preference and I have no problem with people seeing things
differently. I know that a form like '</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>zegde</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">' is the exact counterpart of Middle Dutch '</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>seghdi</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> '. Up to about 30 years ago 'ge, 'gij'
were perfectly acceptable forms in Standard Dutch ( in its Southern
variety). Nowadays these forms are somewhat discredited, though most
people use them. When I talk to friends in Diest I use
them in my kind of general Dutch (I don't venture to speak the local
lingo, as I'm afraid I would bungle it). There is a strong tendency
these days among politicians to speak with 'je' (although for some mysterious reason 'jij' and 'jou'
are shunned)Â especially when talking in front of a microphone or
TV-camera. Unfortunately quite a few stumble when they revert to 'u' as
an object form. I tend to think then: they had better stick to 'ge, gij' if they can't consistently use 'je'. When I expressed my dislike of enclitic '-de', I was mainly thinking of its use in
Flemish TV-serials. They pretend to be standard (?) Dutch, but in fact they are in some kind of preposterous non-language (nep-Nederlands) . That is the sort of speech I said I abhorred. You may like it, but I don't. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I did take exception at your claim (based on Weijnen's conviction that "</span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">the far south-east of <span>Vlaams</span>-<span>Brabant</span> does not have the -<span>de</span> ending in the 2<span>nd</span> person </font></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">". This is pertinently incorrect as I know firsthand. I was born and raised in Tienen, but my
mother originated from Melkwezer, a small village in the exact centre of 'Getelands', which is spoken in a region somewhat west of the river Grote Gete to the Kleine Gete (Diest is not in this region). I know the language of this region. So I spoke Tiens and I learnt my mother's dialect. You can take my word for it when I say that ' contrary to what Weijnen claims, the enclitic -de is used in all of this Getelands .</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> In all</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> of Getelands </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">but not</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Tienen and Hoegaarden (and perhaps in a few adjacent villages of Tienen like Kumtich an Hakendover. For decades I haven't lived in Tienen, but when I, rarely,  meet old friends from Tienen I speak Tiens.With relatives from Melkwezer, whom I see more often, I speak their dialect. So in these circumstances I use the enclitic -de myself. I think it is self-evident to use it in dialect, but not in a form of speech that goes beyond the local sphere.</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;">Greetings, </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;">Roger Hondshoven</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Diest (East-Brabant) Belgium</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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