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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Lowlanders,<br><br>Yesterday I had three conversations <i>in Afrikaans</i> (in my case "approximate Afrikaans") with a young man that works in a building across from mine. I run into him occasionally and by his name and accent assumed he was an Afrikaans speaker. <br>
<br>Yesterday I finally mustered the courage to address him in Afrikaans to ask him something like “Jy kom uit Suid-Afrika, nè?” He was flabbergasted, not only because it was unexpected, but in part also because I didn't sound native. I gave him a mini-lecture about the old Low-Frankish-Low-Saxon language and culture continuum. At one point he wanted me to answer in Low Saxon, then said that he could definitely catch the gist of it, a bit like in in cases of certain speakers of Dutch ("</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sommige woorde is 'n bietjie moeilik om te verstaan.") He further said about Low Saxon that it certainly doesn't seem to be a type of German.</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;">Later he came back twice to chat some more. He comes from a place in the southern part of Johannisburg, very close to our Elsie's place.<br>
<br>Maybe I'll be getting some real practice with time. I really enjoy listening to native Afrikaans.</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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