LL-L "Anniversary" 2004.11.06 (02) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Anniversary" [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Anniversary
>
> Thinking about an encouraging message for my own "blurb," I thought of
> something like a motto, a commonly used, though now somewhat oldfashioned
> Lowlands Saxon (Low German) maxim: _Hold fast!_
>
> I thought that speakers of pretty much all Lowlands language varieties
> ought
> to understand it.  Is this correct, or am I deluded?
>
> It does mean literally "Hold fast!" (_Hou(d) vast!_ in Dutch and
> Afrikaans,
> I guess), "Hold on!", "Stay with it!", "Don't give up!" and the like, or,
> as
> our friend Glenn Simpson says in Northumbrian, "Keep ahaad!", or   ??
> _ganbatte!_ in Japanese.

This would be OK for Scots, I think. I've mentioned this before, but there's
the village of Cousland about two miles from my village in Scotland where
there's a steep slope called "Hadfast Brae", so called because you had to
"haud fast" (hold fast) when going down it on a horse.

The town of Tranent, also two miles from my village, has as its motto "Ca
Forrit", being a bit difficult to translate, but means something like "Press
on", "Drive or thrust forward" or "Forge ahead".

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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