LL-L "History" 2005.09.04 (06) [E]

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2005.09.04 (05) [E/LS]

Hi, Heather and Ron,

(it's too late for any LS-version, now)

Heather (deriving from 'Heide' or 'Heathen?? I'm not sure, in your case
;-)?):
> > If you can possible arrange it, I recommend visiting  the Lunenburg
> Heath<
>
> But I know it already having spent two delicious holidays up there at a
> friend's house  in a tiny village called Trebel whilst at university in
> Göttingen.
One halv of my relatives is born and still living there- but I myself am a
plant of the coast. I found out the Luneburg area being too dry....

Ron:
> Oh, and I hope the occupying British Royal Army has meanwhile stopped
> doing
> to the Heath what in Tok Pisin is called _bagarapim_.
Americans! They even aren't aware that things did change, long years ago
;-). I don't know any _bagarapim_, but could perhaps interprete it's
meaning.

Let me tell: Me and my family had very nice and close connections to those
'occupants'. Because- they didn't make their manoevers in our region (too
muddy), but came to hunt ducks and geese.
In the late sixties I was the only boy in our village able to deal with a
basic English (before this time they all had to communicate in LS), and so I
had to do a job as dolmetsch and guide with them.
It was absolutely amazing to see those feudalistic structures in their army
(as far as I can remember: besides others it was the '/G/C/oldstream Guards'
we dealt with), these extremely polite but funny people (in the way they
used to be 'sportsmen'). I still see an older knight (he just was the
father-in-law of one of the active officers) vanishing in any mud-whole with
his 3.000,- pound worth shotgun. After some seconds he surfaced, over and
over covered by any green waterplants, and he just said: 'Oh- jolly good!'
His nickname now was 'Jolly-The-Good' in our village.

And, Ron, there really was never any bad oecological pollution by the
armies- maybe English, American or German. Their areas for exercises with
tanks became places of refuge for many rare animals- because there wasn't
any intensive farming at all.

I guess, many Germans are sad to have lost the greater part of 'Her
Majesty's Royal Army' in later times.

BTW: Even going farer back you'll just here those 'Inglishmen' always having
been fair and correct after WW II: _hart, aber gerecht_.

But- I not at all want to judge about the behaviour of the French or U.S.
'occupants'; I just lack of own, personal experiences.

Anglophilie? Maybe. 'Haduloah'!

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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