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Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">"Language varieties" 2013.12.06</span><br><br><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>This is not my disciple;one. But a friend of mine, who used to live in South Limburg<br>(a story in its own un-right), told me they spoke a language with a strain Raeto-romanic<br>
substrate. Details concerning place etc are unknown to me, but I’ll look into van Ginniken.<br><br>Cordially,<br><br>Frank Polak,<br>Jerusalem, IL<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">----------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>From: Daniel Prohaska ‹<a href="mailto:daniel@ryan-prohaska.com" target="_blank">daniel@ryan-prohaska.com</a>›</div>
<div>Subject: The Belgian Language</div><div><br></div><div>This is fascinating! Is there any more information about these varieties available?</div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Dan</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">"Language varieties" 2013.12.06</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div class="im">Heiko wrote:<br><br>>these days I came across this youtube video:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfcoda8yKM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfcoda8yKM</a><br>>in which the actor Patric Stewart (Captain Picard from Star Trek Next Generation) recites a poem in his home dialect from Huddersfield/Yorkshire.<br>
>It sounds interesting, but I don't understand a single word. Anyone around who does?<br><br></div>This is what I heard beginning <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">0:12</span></span>:<br><br>I was sitting by arse last evening, my mother and father were off, 'cause they heard my old nob Suzanne was laid up in bed with a cough. She has some brass has my old nob Suzanne, that's the reason she's looked after so, if they've nought, well they're nought but a bother, there's a sample (example) my old uncle George</div>
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