<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 27 July 2009 - Volume 02<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">http://lowlands-l.net/</a></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
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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(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.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 history"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beste Roger,</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;">
Maybe it is because I've been hearing so much Romanian and Italian
lately, but Limburgish "singing" inevitably makes me think that it may
just have been the way that Roman villa owners were trying to adapt to
the speech of invading Germanic bands, once that the Empire started to
collapse. An areal feature indeed, Cologne and its hinterland have a
rich Roman history. Which cannot be said of Frisia: Frisia non cantat,
from a Roman viewpoint. And a stiff upper lip doesn't exactly give way
to singing either. Scandinavian "singing" could be an entirely
different evolution altogether.</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;">
On the road now, so my internet access is limited by what my iPhone
allows...haven't been able to read all Lowlands post, so in advance I
want to apologize if this message ignores older posts.</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;">
Kind 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;">
Luca, karadeniz</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;">----------</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;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</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 history"<br><br>
</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Subject: (West-)Limburgish bitonality</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Just for you people getting a feeling about the sound, I
ripped a sample track and downloaded it to url:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/cajot/01.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/cajot/01.mp3</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">It is about 7 Mb for 7:32 minutes.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">It is in West-Limburgish from Hasselt, not too different from
Brabantish, and I hope understandable by many of you.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Its track 01 from "<strong>Jos Ghysen, Conferences</strong>"
and clearly recorded at a carnaval show.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The titel is "<strong>Bè de troep</strong>", Dutch "Bij het
leger", English "With the army".</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Enjoy,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">PS. It starts with a line from the Limburgish National
Song (in Dutch)</font></div><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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