<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 19 August 2009 - Volume 01<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);">Jonny</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Language politics"</span><br><br></span><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span>Beste 
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>just a couple of 
days ago I read an article in our local newspaper which attracted my 
interest.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Meanwhile I found 
it also in the internet on <font color="#0000ff">PR <a href="http://inside.com/" target="_blank">inside.com</a> 
</font>:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span><a href="http://www.pr-inside.com/de/plattdeutsch-als-zusatzqualifikation-f-uuml-r-r1437250.htm" target="_blank">http://www.pr-inside.com/de/plattdeutsch-als-zusatzqualifikation-f-uuml-r-r1437250.htm</a></span></div>


<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Two facts within 
this article struck me:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>1. Isn't it great 
that an employer looks out for an employee who is able to speak Low Saxon? I 
guess things like these just can happen in Eastern Friesland (as far as Germany 
is concerned), because for most of the people over there it's still their true 
first language.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>2. Isn't it awful 
that the Low-Saxonian (Niedersachsen, federal state of Germany)) 
employers-federation advised against job-advertisements which prefer people with 
knowledge of Low Saxon? Obviously this language seems to 
be different from any other language...</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span> Apartheid in 
Germany - its other face!  </span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>

<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><span></span> Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div><br><br><br>
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