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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 30 March 2010 - Volume 02</b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Language varieties" 2010.03.29 (01) [EN]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dear John:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: LL-L "Language
varieties"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
Well, John, I <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">did</span></strong> warn
you I'd call you & continue calling you(plural) 'Sheltie' & your
language 'Sheltie' until you gave me a name to call you by, & your tongue
as well. I well appreciate <span style=""> </span>that an
outsider is not qualified to name you or your speech, but you need it, &
why does it seem to me you won't'? (read (plural) into all the pronouns, now!)
You should by rights be having this conversation not with us but in a shouting
match between <span style=""> </span>fellow Sheltie-speakers.
They would shout you down, you would challenge them for a better alternative,
& voila! If it makes you feel better you may address me as 'Boertjie'.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John, if I were the only
Boertjie on the list I would write in Afrikaans & (they have done it) a
generous handful of Lowlands speakers would respond in the same or their own
dialects, for the sake of understanding & in good faith that I would in an
amateur scholarly way be as intrigued as they by the points of contact between
their 'dialects' & mine. Pleeeeease do the same! You have my unqualified
licence to respond to all my Afrikaans in Sheltie. If I strike a snag I shall
ask Ron, or better still, Sandy,
to help.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From the ox to the ass, I
also am inclined to respond in the tongue by which I am addressed, & I
generally do. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">(note to myself): Sterkte, Mark; hierdie is 'n taallys. Jy is hier om van
ander tale te leer, so ook jou geselskap.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanks for <a href="http://www.wirhoose.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.wirhoose.co.uk</a>. <span style=""> </span>(& the other internet stuff)I shall bear
your caution in mind about 'A Tait Wanchancie'. I have heard this Sheltie way
of replacing the Scots 'th' with 'd' or 't' as in <span style=""> </span>'dan' for 'then', and 'dere' for 'there'. This
as an Afrikaner I find most satisfying. Have you(sing.) given thought how
convergent change (I will not call it evolution) in some of the more distant
dialects have brought them notably closer together?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I think I've shared this on
the list before: Robert the Bruce goes to mass in Dumfries,
& who should he see at the alter-rail beside him but his deadly enemy. In a
passion of outrage he draws his dirk & runs him through. But remember, Our
Robert is a Christian & Penitant, & riven with sorrow he turns away
& walks out. His leutenant Douglas Dubh is standing guard outside, &
asks him (having seen some of the action), "Khwat maccur?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Robert: "Ik think ik had a man geslacht."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Douglas</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">: "Think? Think! Then I'll mak siccur!"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">In Afrikaans:<br>
Douglas: "Wat makeer?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Robert: "Ek dink ek het 'n man geslag." (min of meer).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Douglas: "Dink? Dink! </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dan maak
ek seker!"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wishing you none of the same
I remain,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yrs,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mark</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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