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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Language promotion" 2009.12.30 (03) [EN]</span><br><br></span><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" id=":17g" class="ii gt">
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<div><font size="4">Hello Marcus &
Reinhard!</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Thank you, Reinhard, for the Yiddish
link. It is perfectly understandable :-), and obviously all the videos are on
Youtube as well. So they use several platforms simultaneaously.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Marcus, you write: "<font size="3">So we won't get a TV station anytime soon. That's not realistic
without major changes. But it's still _necessary_ if we want Low Saxon to
prosper.</font>" This sounds desolate. Do you mean to say that Low Saxon has
done, since there won't be a TV station? Let us not give in so easily! I am
confident Platt can be kept up without a TV station. Hanne, before she left the
thread, was very positive it could; I think she may be right, although a TV
station would be a fine thing to have. Let us not demand the moon and otherwise
resign. Let us find small steps that really can be taken. What can be done with
the energies and money that now <em>are </em>in the pd. issue? Forgive me if
this has been discussed many times before in this forum; but it looks to me we
are up to something concrete, something that can be <em>done</em>, and I would
love to know what it is. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Your remarks about the centrifugal
development sound quite plausible. Suppose we had settled what the "center" of
Platt should be, what could be done about this? It sounds like an organizing and
communicating issue to me. Now I am a member of the pd. Raad för
Sleswig-Holsteen <a href="http://www.heimatbund.de/niederdeutsch/ndrat.php" target="_blank">http://www.heimatbund.de/niederdeutsch/ndrat.php</a>.
This board has done some very good work in school politics lately; in some other
respects they are more conventional and rather slow. But I learned that the Raad
in Sleswig-Holsteen is the most active of all Bundesländer; most other northern
german Bundesländer have only crippled versions or no pd. Raad at all. In
Hamborg however things seem to be changing. Maybe there are other pd.
"lobby groups" in other regions, in or outside Germany, that might "represent"
the pd. community of their region. Could anything be done by a common movement
of such organizations? I admit I am quite a failure at penetrating
administrative structures & bureaucracies. But at best such a movement might
even exert pressure as to (the money needed for) better media presence of
Platt...</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Thoughtful greetings,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Marlou</font></div></div>
</div><br><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: R. F. Hahn
<</span><a rel="nofollow" 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 promotion<br><br>You're welcome, Marlou.<br><br>"Perfectly understandable"?! Are you sure?<br><br> Well, I guess the subject matter kept the number of words from Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic down, so you may have guessed their meaning within the given contexts. But I remember frequent use of Hebrew-derived expressions like <i>bekhlal</i> (< Hebrew <i>bekhlal</i> בכלל) 'in general', <i>avade</i> (< Hebrew <i>waday</i> ודאי) 'of course', 'certainly', 'definitely', <i>mekhaber</i> (< Hebrew <i>meHaber</i> מחבר) 'author', and <i>koydem-kol</i> (< Hebrew <i>qodem-kol</i> קודם כל
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">) 'first of all'. Guessing those would have been difficult. Was that what the smiley was about?</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;">Guten Rutsch!</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;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br></span><br>
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