LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.04.14 (06) [E/LS]

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From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.04.14 (01) [E]

We have a similar "dinges" here, you generally use it when the name or word
doesn't want to come up to your mind immediately.

"Geef mij de dinges eens?"

"Ik heb gisteren dinges nog gezien!" (here it's about a person whose name
you can't remember)

I have no idea if this is considered "good" Dutch or not - I only hear it
spoken, never seen it in written language. (maybe one of our Netherlandic
people here can tell if it's widespread overthere as well)

Diederik Masure

>From: R. F. Hahn sassisch at yahoo.com
>Subject: Lexicon

>Hi, Tom!
>
>Don't people in Australia use "thingy" in the same way, or was that
>only in
>my circles?  I thought I heard it used in England as well.
>
>In Northern German (at least), possibly based on Low Saxon, you can
>use
>_Dings_ or _Dingsda_ in much the same fashion.  _Ding_ is 'thing',
>and _da_
>is assumedly the word for 'there'.  In Missingsch and derived German
>dialects you can say _Dings_ (not plural) instead of _Ding_, also in
>Low
>Saxon, which is why I assume this _Dingsda_ comes from Low Saxon
>_dat dings
>daar_ 'the/that thing there'.  But in the named German dialects
>_Dingsda_
>can be used without the article, even for names one has forgotten,
>both
>names for people and places (as in the operetta _Der Vetter aus
>Dingsda_
>"The Cousin from Whatsisname" by Eduard Künneke and Hermann Haller,
>here
>probably implying something like "whatever boondocks").  This
>_Dingsda_ can
>be used much the same as American English "thingymabob,"
>"whatsisname,"
>"doodad" etc., and also like non-American "thingy" (and Scots
>_thingwy_?),
>as in Missingsch _Wassn nas Dinksdå_ (= _Was ist denn das Ding(s)
>da_) 'What
>sort of (weird) thing/gadget/contraption/thingymabob/doodad is that
>(there)?"   You can also combine it with _weischå_ (= _(du) weißt
>ja_ 'well,
>you know (what)'); e.g., _Das happich von weischå Dinksdå
>gekricht_ 'I got
>it from ya know Whatsisname.'
>
>So your  (well, not *yours* of course) Scots _Ah went tae thingwy's
>tae git
>a thingwy_  would be in Missingsch _Ich binßu Dinksdå das Dinksdå
>hooln_.
>
>So according to you it causes cerebral atrophy (or lexical
>shrinkage), huh?
>My wife would be inclined to agree with you there, at least in my
>case, or
>she would say it's the result of it .  ;-)  In my case it tends to
>set in
>when it's past my bedtime.  I guess you wouldn't be amused.
>
>Cheers!
>Reinhard/Ron

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.04.14 (01) [E]

Dear Lowlanners,
Ron wrote:

> In Northern German (at least), possibly based on Low Saxon, you can use
> _Dings_ or _Dingsda_ in much the same fashion.  _Ding_ is 'thing', and
> _da_
> is assumedly the word for 'there'.

Even more famous in these days is _Dingsbums_, meaning all the the same.

Greutens/sincerely

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: R. F. Hahn sassisch at yahoo.com
Subject: Lexicon

"Dingsbums," Jonny?  Tja, dat ken ik ook noch.  Dat geev' 't sogaar al vör
my.

Kumpelmenten,
Reinhard/Ron

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