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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(121, 6, 25);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</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 "Idiomatica" 2009.07.20 (03) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="4">My own Old Lady (a really sweet one), when excited, separates
the s-t and s-p in German as it is done in Platt; that is called "s-tolpern
übern s-pitzen S-tein". So in winter when it snows, she calmly says "Da draußen
ist ein Schneegestöber", but when it comes thicker or I have to go out,
she presses me not to because of "das schreckliche Schneeges-töber!"
Schneeges-töber is something quite different from Schneegestöber :-) Surely the
earliest years define the "folds" of our brain, later years only "decorate"
them...</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Marlou</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">(Hamburg)</font></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br>From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <span><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2009.07.20
(02) [EN]<br><br></div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">My parents
came from small larg-family farms in the South of Belgian Limburg and it was a
practice that the girls of the family were sent to Liège in their teen years
 for learning some French while "serving" and getting a little bit of
money.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">So my
mother, in her young years, has been serving for serveral years in the
kitchens of the hospital Saint-Joseph and of the technical school
Saint-Roland both downtown Liège.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">At the time
Liège was about 60 minutes away from where we lived: 30 minutes with the
old tram to Tongeren, and a further 30 minutes with the multi-stop
train to the Gare du Palais. Liège was still the capital of our bishopric
as well as of our legal district at the time.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">At the age
of 70 my mother got a serious stroke and was taken into to the
Antwerp Middelheim hospital. To my big surprise, when she restarted talking,
she did it in French with the Antwerp hospital staff.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">So I guess
it has to do with release of things related to memory and practice hidden in
lower parts of the brain.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font><br><br><font size="2">----------</font><br><br><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Subject:
Idiomatica</span></font><br><br>Thanks, Roger.<br><br>Your story is not unlike
the two I've shared here before.<br><br>An old German-Finnish-Russian
professor of mine started speaking Mandarin when he was delirious close to his
death. He did not know Chinese as an adult (which was seen as a professional
detriment in his case), but he had been taken care by a Chinese nanny as a
young child in Manchuria.<br><br>The grandmother of a friend of mine suffered
a stroke and thereafter completely reverted to her native Yiddish, having lost
all of her English that she had used since arriving in the US as a very young
person.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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