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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrick Hanks</b> <<a href="mailto:hanks@bbaw.de">hanks@bbaw.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial">In Germany, there are notices in parks which appear
to _give permission_ </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">for </font><font face="Arial">lying on </font><font face="Arial">the </font><font face="Arial">grass -- </font><font face="Arial">"Liegewiese", literally something like "lying-on meadow".
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<div><font face="Arial">This, too, strikes </font><font face="Arial">a Brit. as
odd, but maybe there is a pragmatic implication that </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">dogs </font><font face="Arial">should not </font><font face="Arial">be </font><font face="Arial">allowed to foul it, nor bicycles ridden
over the recumbent </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">persons </font><font face="Arial">stretched out there
in the sunshine</font><font face="Arial">. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div></blockquote></div>It can be
very countrified. Here in Fürth, there are a whole lot of Wiesen that
may not be walked on, especially with dogs, between March and
September. They don't want dogs fouling the grass because it's cut and
dried for fodder, and they don't want the storks disturbed. There is
also an aggressive dog-owning faction that insists on invading the
meadows because 'we pay dog taxes and this is a wicked doghating
society'. This is a difficult place for dogs, especially after all the
news about small children being mauled or killed. Maybe your Hundewiese
is a place where dogs are allowed off the lead?<br>
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I do have a feeling there's more emphasis on fears about all sorts of dangers than there is in Britain.<br>
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Margaret Marks (delurking)<br>
<a href="http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg">www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg</a><br>
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