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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font>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><font><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "History" 2012.06.15 (01) [EN]</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Regarding Elizabeth the First's "Dutch", it is worth noting
that around a century earlier, when Caxton said Old English "seemeth
more lyke unto Dutch than Englyshe", he meant "deutsch" in modern terms.
Caxton spoke fluent Hollands.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Paul</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span>Derby</span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">England.</span>
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<br>----------<br><br>From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><font><br>Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "History" 2012.06.15 (01) [EN]</span>
<br><font><br></font>Ron,<br><br>namaste!<div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:center">
<span style="text-align:left">The last competent speaker of Slovincian
(a West Slavic language) died somewhere in West Germany in the second
half of the 20th century.</span></div><div style="text-align:center">
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</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><div>I take objection! I consider myself a VERY competent Slovincian speaker! AND, last I checked, I am STILL kicking! ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>okay, I admit, maybe it is NOT competent Slovincian... but at the very least it is BAD Kashubian ;-)</div>
<div><br></div>and German readers (or members capable of reading German) might enjoy the following bit of history:<div><a href="http://www.dpg-brandenburg.de/nr_18/slovinz.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dpg-brandenburg.de/nr_18/slovinz.htm</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>bhetãula!</div><br>mwm || <u>U</u> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>academic adviser to "Nepal Sign Language Training and Research Centre" project<br>
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