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<br><div>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a></span></span><div>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2012.01.15 (03) [EN]<br><br></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi Gael</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Towards the end of your last contribution to this strain you say: </span> For now though, can someone give me a few more clues? Is the word/concept of <b>dörp</b> related to a certain capability among <u>lowlanders to mix together more ‘harmoniously.</u>’ </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I
can clearly understand where you are coming from. I am also the
granddaughter in a family that lived in the countryside and spoke ‘Plat’
at home. (In my case ‘Twents’ – one of the Low Saxon dialects of the
Eastern Netherlands). I did not grow up in that part of the country, but
in one of the large cities of the West. I also experienced the
difference between the two ways of life as almost mutually exclusive.
The one in Almelo was warmer, funkier and ’more together’ than that in
Utrecht, which I considered up-tight. In the country side people knew
each other better and did not consider each other a threat. There was
lots of humor, lots of laughter. Maybe that comes from living closer to
the land. If you are living in natural surroundings and with nature, it
seems that you do not have to keep a distance from your surroundings and
life becomes more ‘whole’ (for lack of a better word). Even now, when I
leave the city I automatically become more happy in my skin.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">As
for the word “dorps”; It is all in the eyes of the beholder. You can
look at it from the outside and depending on your attitude use it
derisively; like ‘those simpletons’, or like in my case with longing for
the connection. On the other hand, one can be a teenager, living in the
area, and resent that closeness. He or she would be looking forward
to the noise and the frenetic rhythm of the city. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">As
far as the music goes. I once spent 4 month in Switzerland and I could
recognize the off-beat between living there and in the rest of the
world. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">So ‘Swiss Regae’ is not a mutually exclusive terminology..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Jacqueline BdJ</span></p>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Seattle USA </span></div><br></div>
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