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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2">From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2">Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.06.01 (04) [EN]</span></p><font size="2">
<br></font><div><font size="2">Well, Mike, if it must be, let an EU-wide referendum decide!
</font><font size="2">Good chances for German :-) Or we will all have to learn
Maltese --- fine mass-adventure :-)</font></div><font size="2">
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</font><div><font size="2">But I don't think it would strenghten the smaller languages.
How so? It would not change the way people speak or understand. Low German would
be just as bad off in Germany as it is now. People don't care a straw about what
is translated into what in Brussels. Hardly anybody would take notice. Do you
think they would say "Oh, look, now they do no longer translate into German in
Brussels/Strasbourg/elsewhere! Only English! German is, in Brussels, no better
than any other language! Just as poor a devil as Low German! Just
think! We should now rate Low German higher since High German is just as
down-and-out!" They would, if anything, rather tend to rate High
German as low as all those other starveling languages and try to speak that
ghastly Globish themselves, thereby deteriorating it still more. Would be fun if
GB would then leave the EU for sheer disgust :-))</font></div><font size="2">
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</font><div><font size="2">Hartlich</font></div><font size="2">
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</font><div><font size="2">Marlou</font></div><font size="2">
</font><div><font size="2">(No EHEC still, but something terrible is spreading from our
region here... must be home-bred, the Spanish are innocent... it kills people,
and we don't find the source... yes, *our* glorious medical institutions *still*
have *no clue*... first casualties from shame, not from EHEC, are reported...
beware, rest of the world! The north-german plague will get you!)</font></div><font size="2"><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">
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