LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.10.07 (10) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 07 October 2005 * Volume 10
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From: Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.10.07 (03) [D/E]

To Yasuji Waki
Re: So, I had to read his explanation with "Mayutsuba" (by
putting salivia on the eyebrow): a Japanese expression: in English maybe it
means"by taking with discount.

Yes Yasuji, I think the English form of this idiom is "To take something
with a grain of salt"

The trouble is that you cannot say that every notion Nyland proposes is
hogwash. It is not that is either a genius or a crackpot, but is both at the
same time. Anyhow it is fascinating reading.

I just spent some time on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada.
There, one of the Coastal Salish tribes of Indians has been knitting
clothing from the hair of mountain goats for as long as one can imagine;
certainly predating the arrival of European settlers. The funny thing is
that knitting is a typical European craft. Somebody has suggested that the
Vikings may have taught them to knit. But that presupposes that the Vikings
not only sailed around Africa, but around India and South East Asia as well.
A later contact may have been with the Japanese in the 13th or 14th century.
Apparently they had a lively trade going. I am curious how the knitting got
to Lake Cowichan!

In the mean time have fun with Nyland. Jacqueline 

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