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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Limburgian language: towards European recognition
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:12:33 GMT
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In a previous article, SteveMac@GoodNet.Com ("Steve MacGregor") says:

>Roger Thijs <rthijs@innet.be> wrote in article
><32D82D13.4544@innet.be>...
>
><<Below: The text of an article from the Belgian newspaper "Het Belang
>van Limburg" of Saturday January 11, 1997, stating the Dutch government
>accepted the demand from the provincial council of the Dutch province
>of Limburg to get Limburgian recognized by the European commission as a
>minority language.>>
>
>[ one humongous SNIP! ]
>
>  Shades of the Ebonics controversy!

Really?  I didn't know the Limburgers were black.  Actually, until 
recently I thought they were cheeses.
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