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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 05 April 2010 - Volume 05</b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">M.-L. Lessing</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FR"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi">LL-L "Language politics" 2010.04.05 (02)
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Well, dear Marcus, with Nazi Germany I think you have a
country that banned certain words rather successfully. Quite simple, everyday
words. I have a lot of elder relatives (including my mother) who went to school
during Third Reich, and what do they say when doing a subtraction? "17
weniger 5 gibt 12." As a child I wondered, until finding that
"weniger" means "minus". Of course "plus" was
substituted by "und". And as to punctuation, "Der Beistrich
steht vor dem Nebensatz." Guess what "Beistrich" is? The Komma.
And all parts of grammar had german names, including Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ
and Akkusativ, which became Wer-Fall, Wes-Fall, Wem-Fall and Wen-Fall
accordingly. (Once I told this to a friend who was a rather hopeless case of
Legastheniker and grammar flop; his face began to shine with sudden
enlightenment, and he exclaimed: "So kann ich das endlich auch begreifen!
Die waren ja gar nicht so doof, die Nazis!" This was not a political
statement however.)</p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">The Nazis (who were very doof despite all this) began in
school and made the teachers use german terminology consistently. If a child
had learned latin-based terms at home, their use was strongly
discouraged. I think in this way you can substitute words quite
effectively.</p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Is not the same thing happening today in German with many
German words being supplanted by English words (or such that are believed to be
English)? It is media and certain cultural trends that help this on -- not by
means of law, but by, well, psychology (?) and still in a pluralistic
society. But if an influential, trendsetting group goes to work methodically
and with resolution, I think they could exterminate certain words very
effectively and in no more than a few years. Shall we bet? ;-)</p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Hartlich</p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Marlou</p>
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