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L O W L A N D S - L - 21 January 2014 - Volume 01<br><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">From: </font></font><span name="Mike Morgan" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Mike Morgan</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br>
Subject: </font></font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.19 (02) [EN]</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">In the bookshops this month: a special issue of "Dossiers pour la Science" (Nr. 82, Jan-March 2014) about the Evolution of languages.</div>
<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">It is in French, titled: "L'évolution des langues" and has 120 pp.</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
The first 16 introductory pages can be browsed at:</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><a href="http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/f/feuilletage.php?art_id=32527" target="_blank">http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/f/feuilletage.php?art_id=32527</a></div>
<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">The contents are on page 2-3.</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
The paper copy is in the shops for EUR 8:20 in Belgium, EUR 6.95 in France and CAD 11.50 in Canada.</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
It can also be ordered for EUR 5:80 as pdf at:</div>
<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><a href="http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/e/espace-numerique-detail.php?art_id=32527&num=82" target="_blank">http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/e/espace-numerique-detail.php?art_id=32527&num=82</a></div>
<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">I attach their tree of the Indo-European languages as home-scanned pdf to this message.</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
They put the split within germanic languages as of 1750 years ago</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">and the first split within indo-european languages 8700 years ago.</div>
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Regards,</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">Roger<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">back when I worked in Eastern Turkey with an English and a Northern Irish expat, we used to love coming up with "nonimportable" cross-Atlantic examples which would send our Turkish colleagues to the dictionary in confusion.. and have us rolling on the floor</span></div>
<div><div><br></div>a favourite was<br></div><br>Can I borrow your rubber?</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
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