LL-L "Riddles" 2005.02.15 (09) [A/E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Riddle" 2005.02.15 (05) [D/E]

Beste Gabriele,

Onderwerp: "Raaisel"

> OK, with all those Egyptian riddles, I can't keep it in any longer - it's
> just stronger than me. But I am not going to translate this into English,
> because it only works in Dutch; it would turn out just too crude in any
> translation.

Nog een in die einste toom, uit my kinderjare.

Raai, raai: Watter soort hare het 'n perd?

Antwoord: Perdehare!

En wat sit onder sy stert?

Hier is jou slagoffer veronderstel om rond en bond weg te kyk, en
uiteindelik onderstems iets te sê soos, "Boslyse." of iets van die aard,
maar die

Antwoord: 'n Eekhorinkie!

Eina! Eina! 'skiesjammer, Ron!

Die Uwe,
Mark

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Riddle" 2005.02.15 (05) [D/E]

Ron wrote:
> "Better bawdy than burst," or "Better ribald than repressed," as they used
> to say.  (Well, someone surely did!)

I don't get it! What is bawdy, then, about a hobby horse? Your imagination
is just as bad as my mother's!

Personally, I find it commendable that I managed to hold myself back the
first time around, but I admit the second version of the Egyptian riddle
just proved too much for me!

Back to the peanut gallery, I guess. So much for mending my evil ways.

Gabriele Kahn

P.S. I sent another post yesterday, concerning a Lower Saxon hymnal. Did
that get lost, by any chance?

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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Riddles

Mark (hierbo):

> Eina! Eina! 'skiesjammer, Ron!

Ai!  Maar is jy *regtig* jammer, of sien ek daar een krokodiltraantjie?

Gabriele (above):

> Personally, I find it commendable that I managed to hold myself back the
> first time around,

Yeah, we're all so proud of you, I'm sure!

> P.S. I sent another post yesterday, concerning a Lower Saxon hymnal. Did
> that get lost, by any chance?

Do you mean this one?
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502b&L=lowlands-l&F=&S=&P=5263

Cheers!
Reinhard/Ron

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