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From: readi@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (RODERICVS READI)
Subject: Re: Lowlands language list
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tm@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de (Thies Meyer) writes:
>In <DFyoKv.CCA@ciao.trail.bc.ca> uc407@ciao.trail.bc.ca (TOM FRY) writes:
>
>>German. He made the decision as to which words from which dialects to 
>                                                           ^
>As far as I know "Low German" is not a dialect but a language.
>
>You might say: "die plattdeutsche Sprache" 
>but not:       "die bayrische/schwaebische/hessische/... Sprache".

	This guy of Lowlands seem not to like germans, that seems to be
	the reason that he insists that "low saxon" isn't a german dialect.

	As far as I know, there is no "low saxon", but a *low german dialect*
	called "saxon", which purest representant is spoken in Niedersachsen.

	In any case the border between language and dialect is not sharply
	defined, a name may be used to denote a whole family of languages/
	dialects. Political considerations may have influence in the selection
	of the term. Low german *is* one of the old german dialects, as also
	is the case with gotic.

	Rodrigo.

