LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.07 (05) [EN-NL]

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 From: Mike Morgan mwmbombay at gmail.com
 Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.07 (01) [EN]

Ron wrote with regards to those of us who studied Spanish in high
school (etc) in the US:

> On the whole, I would say that those that have adequate skills tend to use
> their Spanish when the need arises. This is especially so among younger
> people, though I also know of Baby-Boomers that use Spanish not only while
> traveling south of the border but also with Hispanic Americans.

Yes, though sometimes to the amusement of the natives... Maybe these
days and maybe in the SW where the numbers of native Spanish speakers
is greater, a more New World variety of Spanish is taught/learned, but
hace muchos años when I was in high school in central Illinois (the
so-called midwest, but actually east of the Mississippi) we were
actually taught a more Quixotic Spanish... and I think it may have
been at least 35 years later when I took the opportunity of hitching a
ride on a tour bus crossing over from Val d'Aran to Lourdes did I
actually use (or hear) the 2nd person plural vosotros forms... (though
I had used the S American vos forms, which we were most definitely NOT
exposed to.)

mwm || U C > || mike || мика  || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W
Morgan)

Senior Consultant
BA in Applied Sign Language Studies (BAASLS)
*इन्दिरा* गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय | Indira Gandhi National Open
University, New Delhi, India

"Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we
excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered
dreams of others. ... [T]here is another kind of violence, slower but just
as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the
violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay." (Bobby
Kennedy, 5 April 1968)

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From: "Stellingwerfs Eigen"
<info at stellingwerfs-eigen.nl><hannehinz at t-online.de><hannehinz at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L

Dear LowLanders,
Uit een artikel in de LC (Leeuwarder Courant) van 7/7:

Een Friese boer uit Grou heeft vandaag voor het gerechtshof in Leeuwarden
gebruik gemaakt van een tolk Fries - Nederlands. Dit gebeurt volgens de LC
ongeveer iedere maand wel een keer.
pb: Het Fries heeft onder Deel III van het Europese Handvest voor
Minderheidstalen inderdaad het recht om bij de rechtbank (in Friesland)
Fries te spreken en in het Fries te worden aangesproken.
Het Nedersaksisch in Nederland valt nu nog onder Deel II maar heeft ook een
aanvraag gedaan om onder Deel III te vallen. Voorlopig in een light-versie
maar het is vervolgens een kleine stap tot 3-taligheid in onze rechtspraak
(Nederlands, Frysk en Stellingwarfs).
Mit een vrundelike groet uut Stellingwarf / Fryslân,
Piet Bult


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