<div style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>==============================</font><font>=======================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 27 December 2011 - Volume 01<br>
<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>
</font><font>
- <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>
Posting: <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
Archive: <a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html</a><br>
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)<br>
Language Codes: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a><br>
==============================</font><font>=======================</font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">
</font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">
</font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">
</font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">
</font>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From:</font> <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:fleemin@live.co.uk">fleemin@live.co.uk</a></span></span><div>
</div><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </font><span class="gI">Language varieties</span><br><span><br></span><span>
</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> From:</font> <span><span>Pat Barrett</span> <span><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span><div>
</div><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </font><span>LL-L 'Language varieties' 2010.12.26. (03) [EN]<br>
<br></span><span>
</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </font><font>We do indeed celebrate Burns night in Mesa,
AZ, USA. I don't know if it's just the East Valley or the whole Phoenix
metropolitan area. I do know when </font><font>there's a performance of Scottish music (as
performed by Scotchmen), at the first note lots of "<font size="3">huge,
ginger-bearded, claymore-wielding Scotchmen" </font><font>jump up and
start yelling.<br><br>They start yelling in Scotch, I hope!<br><br>Burns
Night seems increasingly popular in England in recent years. A lot of
pubs seem to do something special for it. Our local (Yeovil, Somerset)
college's catering department (not the canteen, the cookery teachers and
students) even do a Burns Supper. I've thought of offering to do the
Tam O'Shanter for them, but 20 minutes seems a long time to have sit and
listen to poetry in a foreign language :)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br><br>----------<br><br></font></span></font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From:</font> <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="go"></span></span><div>
</div><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L 'Language varieties' 2010.12.25. (01) [EN]</span><br><span class="gI"><br></span><div><span>A dialect becomes a language when it gets an army.</span></div>
<div><span>Seriously,
there can be no sharp line linguistically, there has to be a political
or social element. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are recognised as
different languages, but as far as I can tell they understand each other
well enough. The difference can't be any more than between Cockney and
Geordie, but politically they are distinct countries. Though if
conversations on other lists are anything to go by, not everyone agrees
who is what nationality or where the borders are. Note that James I of
England, VI of Scotland, referred to his language as "Inglis". </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>When do dialects become languages? when to twigs become
branches?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Paul</span><br></div><font><font><br></font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span></font></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><div style="text-align:center">=========================================================<br>
Send posting submissions to <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>.<br>
Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.<br>
Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to<br>
<a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>
or <a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#%21/group.php?gid=118916521473498" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=118916521473498</a><br>
==========================================================</div></font>