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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: </font>Joachim Kreimer-de Fries <<a href="mailto:Osnabryg%2BLowlands@googlemail.com">Osnabryg+Lowlands@googlemail.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: </font>LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.07.13 (01) [EN, NL]</p><div style="text-align:left"><font><br></font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><div><div><font face="Georgia">Am 12.07.2012 um 20:14 schrieb Dick van Faassen:</font></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">
<div><font face="Georgia">webblad mut ween:<br><a href="http://nds-nl/wikipedia.org/wiki/Veurblad" target="_blank">http://nds-nl/wikipedia.org/wiki/Veurblad</a><br></font></div></div></span></span></blockquote><font face="Georgia"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Georgia">Nee, nee beste Dick,</font></div><div><font face="Georgia">again wrong, the correct URL is:</font></div><div><font face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veurblad" target="_blank"><font face="Georgia">http://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veurblad</font></a></div>
<div><font face="Georgia"><br></font></div><font face="Georgia">But thanks anyway - I've got over it.</font><div><font face="Georgia">Obviously: there, the terms "Leeg Saksies, Leeg Duuts" are used in the sense of 2. a) in my posting, i. e. </font></div>
<div><div><font face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font face="Georgia">2. <span style="font-size:22px">a) </span><span style="font-size:22px"><b>leeg ~ laeg ~ laag</b></span><span style="font-size:22px"> EN low DE Nieder-, Mod. NL laag (niet hoog).</span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:22px"><font face="Georgia"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:22px"><font face="Georgia">In the words of Dr Noordegraaf:</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:22px"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:medium">
<div style="text-align:left"><font face="Georgia"><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-size:22px">"</span><span style="font-size:22px">Leeg
Duits (of Saksisch -jk) wordt ook hier in oppositie met Nederduits
(=Dutch - jk) gebruikt om de gewone volkstaal aan te duiden."</span></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div>In <i>Algemeen Beschaaft Nederlands (ABN)</i> perhaps better put as "<b><i>Laag </i></b>Saksisch".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nevertheless
am I not able to catch the deeper meaning or intention of the term
"Leeg=Laag" in those cases. Wouldn't do it the usual "Nedersaksisch" (or
even "Saksisch in Nederland") in that case?</div><div><br></div><div>The
term "Nether German(ic)" or "Lowlandic" / "Laag Duits" or "Laaglands"
would however suite very well as generic / topic for all languages
developed out of the Dutch and Low German (Lower Frankish and Saxon)
spreaking region(s), once dialect continuum. For my sake, insular
Anglo-Saxon included.</div></font></div></div></span></div></div><br>
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