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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 14 September 2010 - Volume 04<br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Henno Brandsma</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl">hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl</a>></span></p>



<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Language politics" 2010.09.14 (02) [EN]</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</span></a>></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2010.09.13 (02) [EN-NL]</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Also interesting....except I don't know what (or where?) "de
Grondwet" actually is!</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">What the USA would call the constitution (I believe the UK does not
have one...).</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Literally
"ground-law", so "most basic law", in a way. Probably a
loan translation of Grundgesetz, I suppose? </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">I was also surprised to find (if I've understood correctly) that
there are semi-officially English-speaking places - Sint Eustatius and Saba;
are they in the Caribbean?</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">They are, yes. The other
half of St. Maarten (a.k.a. Saint-Martin) is a French "self-governed
colony" (collectivité d'outre mer), so I supposed knowledge of French
would be widespread, but according to the Wikipedia page, most people speak
English there as well (being descendents of English slaves).</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Henno </span></p>

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