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<p class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" 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>
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Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "History" 2012.06.17 (01) [EN-NDS]</span><br>
<br></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><div style="margin-left:40px;color:rgb(0,0,153);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>From: <span><span>Luc Vanbrabant</span> <span><a href="mailto:lucv32@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lucv32@gmail.com</a></span></span></span><br>
<span></span><span><font>Subject: </font><span>LL-L "History" 2012.06.16 (01) [EN]</span></span><br><span><span></span></span><br><span><span></span>Hi Paul,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Are
you sure? I think the name 'Hollands' was not in use at that itime,
certainly not in Bruges were Caxton once lived. Perhaps it is a
difference between general Dutch, which was called 'Nederduits', and
local Flemish. Even in Köln at that time, he did not hear 'Deutsch' but
'Rijnlands' which was also a branch of 'Nederduits'. </span><br><span>Old English is closer to our Flemish than Modern English, even after 1500 years.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Groetjes,</span><br>
<span>Luc
vanbrabant</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Hi Luc,</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>"Hollands"
is just what I called it (habit I picked up in South Africa, because
"Dutch" gets confused with "Duits" which is German). I don't know what
Caxton would have called it, but he spent many years in the Low
Countries, so whatever it was called then, he spoke it! But the term
"Dutch" certainly meant "German" to him.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Clearly
OE is actually closer to English than German is, but Caxton's point
was, he couldn't read it and neither could most literate English
speakers of the 15th C. It was effectively a foreign language. He was
addressing the problem of what form of English to use for his newly
introduced printing, and gave examples of how diverse it was. He had
thought of
going to the source, Old English, but decide against it. <br><br></span><font color="#888888"><div><span></span></div><div><font color="#888888"><div><span></span></div><div>Paul<br></div></font></div></font></div><div style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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