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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Tom Mc Rae"><font color="#000000"><span name="Mike Morgan"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Roger Thijs">Roger Thijs</span> <span><<a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com">rogerthijs@yahoo.com</a>></span></font></span></font></span><span><br>
</span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2013.07.18 (01) [EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Lowlands-L </font><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</font></a><br>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 19, 2013 6:26 AM</font></div><span><div> </div><font color="#000000"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> From: </font><font color="#000000"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Tom Mc Rae</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><</font><a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><br>
> </font></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L Languge Convention</font></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> Delancey Place quoted the following from a book..</font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px">-- saying "please" and "thank you" is not a universal custom -- </span></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In my Lonerland Limburgish from Vliermaal:</font></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For "please":</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The common or rather impolite form:<br>
"dè" a kind of vocative form of "doeë" = in Dutch "daar"<br>"dè" comes close to the Dutch "ziedaar";<br>similar to the French "voilà", that still sounds polite when one complètes as "voilà Madame", "voilà Monsieur".</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The polite form:<br>asteblif (Dutch: alstublieft, if it to you pleases) for both singular as plural<br>
generally also completed as "asteblif meneer", "asteblif madam" "asteblif mammezel" (= mademoiselle).</font></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Young guys become immediately "meneer", while young ladies, especially when not married, pass trough an intermediate state of "mammezel". </font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For "thank you:</font></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"mèrseej" (cf. the French "mersi";<br>it is not uncommon to diphtongize ending e or i vowels as well in East Walloon as in Southern Limburgish.</font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When offering food, one adds generally:<br>"Lut het oech smoake" ("lut" is the imperative form of "loeëte", Dutch "laten")<br>
"Oech" sounds similar to "euch" in German, but it is used in both singular as plural, so as "u" can be used for both in Dutch.</font></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When offering drinks:<br>
"Sonteej" not nazalized in Vliermaal, it is nazalized though by some in Tongeren 5 miles to the South (cf. French "Santé" nazalized)</font></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br>
Roger</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></div></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">==============================</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================</font></font></span></p>
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