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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);">Hellinckx Luc</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 diversity"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beste Ron,</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Truly wonderful article about life and death of a language...with a number of Lowlands twists in it of course ;=):</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/q-and-a-the-death-of-languages/" target="_blank">Q and A: The Death of Languages</a></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind greetings,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><div>
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font><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;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: Language diversity</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;">Thank you so much for sharing that article with us, dear Luc!</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;">After some initial skimming I decided to read it more thoroughly tomorrow. Obviously, it is on a subject near and dear to the hearts of many of our fellow-Lowlanders. It would be quite suitable to announce even </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">if</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> there were no direct reference to Lowlands languages (which is pretty much impossible because of English). After all, the theoretical framework that can be applied to most situations.</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;">Today I killed a few minutes of 60 in a couple of bookstores and again had to realize that not only books about language diversity intended for the layperson but even those intended for academic readerships are sorely lacking in accuracy, even those that by way of their titles make you assume that they are be-all and end-all in the field. Most of the information is either of date or is simplified to the degree of ridiculousness. For example, Low Saxon is still portrayed as a German dialect group distinguished only by the lack of sound shifts, west of it there's only "Dutch" and "Flemish," Standard West Frisian is implicitly used in both the Netherlands and Germany, Occitan is presented as the "Provençal dialects of French," and languages like Picard and Walloon were not even mentioned. And forget about Scots! The same goes for the European Languages Charter.</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;">
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