LL-L "Language politics" 2008.07.22 (01) [E]

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From: Mike Wintzer <k9mw at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2008.07.21 (05) [E]

Hi,

Looks like significant progress, but it's just hollow
words, like so many in the French (and other) constitution(s).

On ground level NOTHING will change.

Sorry for being so pessiistic.

Mike Wintzer (resident in Occitània, annexed by France)
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language politics

Hi, Mike!

Of course nothing will change overnight. It's the same in the other EU
countries in which regional and minority languages were officially
recognized years ago. But there's something to be said for having some
constitutional leverage in that it puts the language movements on firmer
ground.

Now it's up to the movements to get their act together.

Just grumbling and "making *Modergeruch* in the background" doesn't do
anyone much good.

Aren't you already sending your children to an Occitan school? So why not
for a start call for changing Occitan education from "foreign language" to
"regional language," thus fully legitimizing it?

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
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