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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">M.-L. Lessing</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.20 (03) [EN]</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">Dear Pat, yes, it's sad. But "sowas
kommt von sowas", as people say here. There was a time... And one of the
sadder things is: Many Germans, instead of making clear the
differences between fascism an being German, rather tend to denounce their
culture, all but their very existence as as fascist thing. A woman whom I knew
from Uni Hamburg
(she studied Germanistik there!!!) married a frenchman. She told me: "My
future in-laws were all very kind. We sat on the terrace after an excellent
dinner on a warm evening, and they started to sing french folk songs, very
pretty. Then they asked *me* to sing a *german* folk song!! Of course I
refused, asking if they thought me a nazi!" ---- Now what can you say? She
is an academic, a germanist -- and obviously an idiot. But there are some of
that stamp. --- Maybe that's a way of justice. The nazis looked down on and
wanted to extinguish all tradition but their own. They have achieved the
reverse -- by planting abhorrence and distrust against all that they held up
into the minds of all people. This is really throwing the baby out with the
bath water. But the more you think about the bath water, the more you think it
is worth it. If this was the only way to get rid of that bath water!!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Now I'm going astray and
getting confused. Hartlich Ostergröten from folk-song-loving Marlou!</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: Pat Barrett <<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">pbarrett@cox.net</span></a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.20 (01) [EN]<br>
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Isn't that sad. I once was approached by high school students (I'm a h.s.
teacher) to start a "German" club. It quickly turned out they wanted
a White supremacist platform. I quickly agreed to be their sponsor and
mentioned in passing that no club on campus can be exclusive. They were sure
that the Black Student Union was for Blacks only. Once they found out they
couldn't be exclusive, they dropped the idea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">How sad that "German" is associated with this crap. I
remind my U.S.
students that we are home to one of the world's longest-lived terrorist
organization, the KKK, and it's still going strong!</span></p>
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