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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2008.13.14 (03) [E]

From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com <mailto:sassisch at yahoo.com>


Subject: Language politics

Misspelling came in when the Sass clique started respelling things in such a
way that words resembled their German cognates, in order to make written Low
Saxon look as German as possible. Among other horrible things, this led to
the spelling /Rehg/ (because of the German cognate /Reihe/) 'row'. Ouch!

Nu warrst du unreell. "Rehg" is veel öller as Sass. Kummt to'n Bispeel al
1854 in Raabe sien 'Allgemeines plattdeutsches Volksbuch' vör. Mi gefallt de
Schrievwies 'Rehg' ok nich. Dücht mi nich besünners klook (dat 'h' in
'Reihe' is ja etymoloogsch verwandt mit dat 'g' in 'Reeg' un dat 'w' in
'row'). 'Rehg' is keen 'misspelling'. Dat is hööchstens en 'unwitty
spelling'. Sass gefallt dat 'h' allerdings ok nich un bi Sass is 'Reeg'
vertekent. Sass hett denn ok nix "respelt" dat dat "as German as possible"
utsüht. He hett blot de Schrievregeln, de dat ok vörher al geven harr, en
beten op Reeg bröcht un 'normaliseert'. De Lüüd hebbt ok al vör Sass na
hoochdüütsche Schrievregeln schreven. He harr ok nich "as German as
possible" in'n Sinn. He harr "as recognizable as possible for people
educated in German-only schools" in'n Sinn.

Marcus Buck

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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2008.12.14 (01) [E]

On street and road names
Hi LLs,
Introducing a radically global system using numbers only.
The American have gone pretty far. Transferred to Europe,
 the axis Warsaw-Posen-Berlin-Hanover-
Arnheim-Den Haag would be indicated
E1E or E1W.-----  Done.
With streets running east-west and avenues north-south,all being numbered,
one can pinpoit an address on a map without ever having been there.
Good system? Practical yes, easy to use, yes,maybe applicable to
Hanover and London, but to Monschau and Maastricht?
Just a thought by Michael Wintzer
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