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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Brooks, Mark</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a></span></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.17 (01) [EN]</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">Paul wrote: “I've
never shared the view of most fellow English speakers that I'm "lucky"
to be born to the World Language; I think I'm hampered by
it.”</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">Paul,</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">It
probably should be obvious to me how you would be hampered by speaking
the World Language as a native, but I can’t think of it. Would you
please tell me why you feel that way?</p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mark Brooks <br><br>----------<br><br>From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a></span></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.17 (01) [EN]</span><br><br></span><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thanks, dear Karen, for mentioning
these two definitions of education and the important difference. In german you
would say "Bildung" and "Ausbildung" for your first and second definition
respectively. Especially the first is a fine picturesque word of very german
character -- "Bildung" means the way a person (or thing, for that matter) is
formed, molded, structured, shaped. I don't know if you know german but you may
hear the word <em>Bild</em> (=picture) in it -- the result you see in
the end. "Bilden" (to educate) can be used both for physical objects
and for immaterial things like a person's mind. If a person is <em>ungebildet
</em>that human is like a lump of clay -- the materials are all there, but the
forming forces have been wanting as yet. If a person is very <em>gebildet
</em>there has been a lot of molding been going on, and you can perceive it on
that person -- maybe by the fineness and reflection of his or her surface or by
the significance and distinctiveness of curves, lines and angles of his
or her character. I love that word. Reading a good book may (trans)form
your whole person -- without jazzing up your CV for the new job. But the latter
is all that counts. Invest a year in learning a new "small" language like
Italian? That means <em>losing </em>a year. Enjoy it?! Huh? A lost year,
nonetheless. -- I will never understand why all these people focused on
efficiency who consider forming your own mind -- <em>sich bilden</em> -- as
losing time don't buy a coffin this moment and kill themselves. It would be the
most efficient way to manage life -- a veritable triumph and pattern of
efficiency! Because that's where we are all destined. <em>Everything else</em>
is losing time! Everything but dying immediately is only an equivalent
of learning Italian -- disgusting digressions from our real
purpose.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oh, I forgot the One Great Distinction:
making money. Things that make money are no digressions of course; you may do
such things before you die. How could I forget! Seems I am a hopeless
case.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These people run the world. And the
world is looking like it. Makes me sick. But how stop them?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Marlou</font></div>
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<div style="font:10pt arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><div class="im"><font style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span>Schmitt, Karen</span> <span><a href="mailto:schmittk@ohio.edu" target="_blank">schmittk@ohio.edu</a></span><font style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font>LL-L "Language
politics" 2012.05.16 (03) [EN]<br></div><font style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font>... We have so sadly flipped
these definitions [<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education" target="_blank">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education</a>]:<div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":1e" class="ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div>
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<span style="width:28px;display:block;float:left;font-weight:bold"><span><br>1.</span></span>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:37px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;FONT-SIZE:small;PADDING-TOP:0px"><span>the act or process <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">imparting</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">acquiring</span> <span name="hotword">general </span>knowledge, developing <span name="hotword">the</span> <span name="hotword">powers</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">reasoning</span> <span name="hotword">and </span><span name="hotword">judgment,</span> and generally <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">preparing</span> <span name="hotword">oneself</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">others </span><span name="hotword">intellectually</span> <span name="hotword">for</span> </span><a style="font-size:small;text-decoration:underline" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mature" target="_blank">mature</a><span> life.</span></div>
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<span style="width:28px;display:block;float:left;font-weight:bold"><span><span name="hotword">2.</span></span></span>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:37px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;FONT-SIZE:small;PADDING-TOP:0px"><span><span name="hotword">the</span> <span name="hotword">act</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">process</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> imparting or acquiring particular <span name="hotword">knowledge</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">skills,</span> <span name="hotword">as</span> <span name="hotword">for</span> <span name="hotword">a</span> <span name="hotword">profession.</span></span></div>
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<br>And we are all
poorer for it.</div><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><font><span></span></font></i></font>
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