Lowland Scots

[Peter A. McGraw]

And what's more, I discovered from the Lowlands-l web site that they've now
added Appalachian English to the list of languages discussed on the list--
another language spoken neither in Europe nor in an area normally described
as "lowlands."  My earlier lame flippancy aside, though, obviously the
definition works if you define a "lowlands" language as one that has its
ORIGINS in lowland northern Europe, regardless of where it may be spoken
today.

BTW, for anyone interested, lowlands-l is a serious list, whose
participants are mostly linguists--or at least it was when I signed myself
off several years ago before leaving on vacation.  I never rejoined, not
because it wasn't interesting, but because there was so much interesting
stuff that I couldn't keep up.

Peter Mc.

--On Thursday, March 6, 2003 7:21 PM -0600 "Salikoko S. Mufwene"
<s-mufwene at UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote:

> At 04:32 PM 3/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>> Oops!  O.k., so I defined "Europe" rather broadly.  ("Greater Europe"
>> maybe?)
>
>        This correction won't fix the problem... not to the eyes of Black
> South Africans (geographically) and perhaps not of the Africaners
> themselves (culturally). The Boers coined the term "Afrikan(d)er" to
> distinguish themselves from the Europeans, didn't they?
>
>
>> --On Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:24 PM -0800 "Peter A. McGraw"
>> <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>> languages such as Dutch, Low Saxon, Afrikaans, Scots and others spoken
>>> in lowland areas of Europe
>>
>>
>>
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>> **** Peter A. McGraw
>>                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>>                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu
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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu