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L O W L A N D S - L - 14 April 2011 - Volume 04<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "History" 2011.04.14 (03) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">A dominant language, and a
dominant country, are two unrelated things. English is all over the
globe, but the last time England
existed as a real political entity, it's global might extended to a few log
huts in Virginia,
where everybody died anyway.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">English is dominant because
the United Kingdom
used it. Then when that Empire waned, the powerful successor happened to use
the same language. That power might just as easily have used French, Spanish or
German; most Americans aren't of English descent, or at least not dominantly.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Paul</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Derby</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">England</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:
History</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear
Lowlanders,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Someone
posted a link to an article on my Facebook page that I am sure many of you will
find interesting. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3fbbvxb">http://tinyurl.com/3fbbvxb</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It asserts
that recent findings point toward there having been one proto language, i.e. one ancestor of all of today’s languages.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mind
you, this is by most considered fringe science. Although I have personally always
assumed that all of today’s language varieties have a common ancestor, I acknowledge
that this is pretty much impossible to prove, since it involves too long a timeline
and too much of a muddle of “static,” including language contacts, universals (e.g.
onomatopoeia), and shifts of all sorts of types.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Reinhard/Ron</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Seattle, USA</p>
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