LL-L "Language politics" 2011.06.01 (10) [EN]

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From: Mike Wintzer k9mw at yahoo.com

Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.06.01 (07) [EN]

hello Lowlanders, hello Marlou,
When I entered school at age of five,
the first thing our teacher did was to
forbid the use of Plat (LS). One day
one of our older classmates (I attended
a rural, one-room school) asked the
teacher WHY we couldn't speak Plat.
Her very serious answer was: «You see,
one day you might want to visit Frankfurt
or work in München, and you would be
like a foreigner only speaking Plat.»
A few years later, I made a bike trip
only 100 km from my home town and
the Deutsch forced down my throat
didn't do me any good, because I
didn't know any Danish.......
With a common lingua franca our
teacher's argument would *collapse*,
no need to deprive us of our mother
tongue for the sake of conversing
with people in Frankfurt or München,
or in Sønderborg for that matter.
Do you understand now, why I feel
that a lingua franca would relieve
the pressure on regional languages?
By the way, Marlou, I noticed that
a bit less than a year ago, we conversed
about the same subject here on LLL.
With respectful greetings, Mike Wintzer

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