LL-L: "Levity" LOWLANDS-L, 17.APR.2000 (01) [E/German]

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From: gdeutsch at estec.esa.nl
Subject: LL-L: "Levity" LOWLANDS-L, 14.APR.2000 (02) [E/German]

Georg Deutsch at ESA
04/17/2000 11:30

Thank you, Jasmin and Reinhard, for explaining the unexplainable.
Indeed, I could feel the smile only for 7%, but at least I understand it
for
100%.
Of course, Reinhard is right with his remark that a joke is more or less
killed if you have to explain it, as my fellow country man S.F. already
liked
to point out about 100 years ago in his essay : Der Witz und seine
Beziehung
zum Unbewussten.

Durch Reinhards Erklärungen habe ich den Eindruck, dass eine dreisprachige
Ausgabe Burns´scher Gedichte (Schottisch-Englisch-Deutsch) für das
deutschsprachige Publikum durchaus von Interesse wäre.

If my memory does not betray me, it was Burns who wrote a poem which
included
something like:
"Wherever I go,  my heart is in the HIGHLANDS."
I would say, this is for this forum a wrong message,
Maybe Lowlands-L should issue an amended version? ;)

Georg

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