LL-L: "English" LOWLANDS-L, 30.JAN.2000 (05) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: English

Dear Lowlanders,

A visitor to our Lowlands-L web site sent the following message to me.  Many
thanks to Sergey Negovelov for bothering to write and making this suggestion,
and best regards and wishes back to Dubna, Russia.

Perhaps this is something you would enjoy discussing, and maybe there are those
among you who know quite a bit about the subject or even know the dialect.

Best regards,

Reinhard/Ron

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:41:05 +0300
From: Sergey Negovelov <negovel at uc.jinr.ru>
Organization: University Center, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
To: sassisch at geocities.com
Subject: Newfoundland English

    Dear Mr. Ron Hahn,
    I am very glad to see your Lowlands site: it is a wonderful example
of the Internet being a means of promotion of lesser used languages and
dialects. Here is my suggestion: let your site include the Newfoundland
dialect of English. This dialect should be very interesting as
Newfoundland's English-speaking community is the oldest (or, at least,
one of the oldest) in America, and relatively few immigrants came there
later, after the first wave of immigrants from southwestern England and
southern Ireland. For all I know, Newfie English should be rather
archaic and different from any other kind of American and Canadian
English.

    Kind regards
    Sergey Negovelov, negovel at uc.jinr.ru
    Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

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