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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Uwe Tychsen</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:tychsen@t-online.de">tychsen@t-online.de</a>></span> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: LL-L "Language
politicis" 2010.05.15 (01) [DE]</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Daar mutt man jo maal taun
besten gäwen, wat uns Ministerpresident in Sleswich-Holsteen seggt:<br>
<a href="http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/Portal/DE/Service/Video/Willkommen__Plattdeutsch.html" target="_blank">http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/Portal/DE/Service/Video/Willkommen__Plattdeutsch.html</a><br>
<br>
Ik grüss all <br>
ut Niestadt<br>
Uwe Tychsen</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Language politics</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dank
di, Uwe.<br>
<br>
Folks, the link Uwe provides above leads you to the official site of the German
state ("land") of Schleswig-Holstein, specifically to a page on which
Peter Harry Carstensen, the state's prime minister, makes a welcoming speech in Low Saxon ("Low German").
You can read the text underneath the video window. Nice touch!<br>
<br>
Actually, I think this is one of the better German state sites: informative, yet
friendly and inviting, showing off one of the state‘s most impressive assets: its
multiethnic and multilingual population. <br>
<br>
Language choices of the site: <br>
German (<a href="http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/">http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/</a>)<br>
English (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/356pur8">http://tinyurl.com/356pur8</a>) [with speech video]<br>
Danish (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2vjk78h">http://tinyurl.com/2vjk78h</a>)<br>
French (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3yumtpq">http://tinyurl.com/3yumtpq</a>)<br>
Spanish (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2v2ewcb">http://tinyurl.com/2v2ewcb</a>)<br>
<br>
It would be nice to add at least Dutch, if not also West Frisian (Frysk). There are longstanding
connections between the state and the Netherlands, and West Frisians are interested
in the state‘s North Frisians. Besides, driving from the Netherlands to Schleswig-Holstein
is no big deal.<br>
<br>
There are videos of young people reading an introduction to the state in the following
languages:<br>
<br>
Danish: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bwtlw9">http://tinyurl.com/2bwtlw9</a><br>
Romany: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/24yhyey">http://tinyurl.com/24yhyey</a><br>
North Frisian: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2be3kpt">http://tinyurl.com/2be3kpt</a><br>
Low Saxon: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2cccqlj">http://tinyurl.com/2cccqlj</a><br>
<br>
The videos are accompanied by text versions (except Romany, although it <i>can</i>
be and <i>is</i> written) followed by German translations.<br>
<br>
In my opinion, the site‘s shortcomings include difficult navigation, unnecessarily
long URLs, and inconspicuous language version links. Also, the server was down for
a few moments each time I connected to the site on several days - not a good thing
for an official site like that.<br>
<br>
Overall, however, it‘s a site worth checking out.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br>
<br>
P.S.: I am blind-copying the Schleswig-Holstein administration on this.</p>
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