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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Mike Wintzer</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:k9mw@yahoo.com">k9mw@yahoo.com</a></span></span><br>

Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]</span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<div>Hi LLers,</div><div class="im">
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<div>Paul writes:</div>
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<div><em>Probably that searching
 for any unfying, universal political/linguistic truth is a lost cause. 
People will speak how they want to speak, when they want to. If they 
find nobody around them understands what they're saying, they'll try 
something else.</em></div>
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</div><div>I beg to differ. Since abot 200 years people speak what the 
government forces them to speak.  Their children or grandchildren don't 
know anymore that their</div>
<div>ancestors were forced into changing their language. That is what has shaped</div>
<div>the present linguistic landscape in Europe and is CONTINUING to do so. That</div>
<div>is the bitter truth.</div>
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<div>Respectfully, Mike Wintzer<br></div></blockquote><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 
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