LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.03.13 (11) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 13 March 2006 * Volume 11
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From: Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.03.13 (10) [E]


Lieve Laaglanners,

In all the discussion about the --truly irregular-- usage in several 
lowlands varieties for "yesterday evening", some of us have recently noticed 
that there is no attested form of "yesterday" in Gothic. "yesterday evening" 
is nowhere to be found in that ancestral Germanic tongue.

One possible reason: When the Goths arrived at the Black Sea, about 100 
years after Christ, they found a marvelous catalytic agent called "red 
wine".

It changed everything. History teaches us this. No more beer, ale, or 
fermented milk or honey. Red wine. cool.

Drawback: You cannot remember several recent events, viz., "yesterday 
evening".
Eternal rationale for one-night stands, or worse. Destroyer of taste and 
discretion, perhaps, yet mercifully, destroyer of memory as well.

So no "yesterday evening" in Gothic b! ecause they simply had no memory of 
it.
But they apparently had hangovers ('kattas"), which explains the net surplus 
in Gothic of terms for "rage" and "irritability", often leading to 
"bloodshed".

Good thing Paul McCartney didn't perform before a Gothic audience (not Goth, 
but true Gothic!); lacking the words, they would all light torches and, 
swaying to and fro, sing along humming

"hmmm hmmm hmmm, love was such an easy game to play..."
Oh how I long for hmm hmm hmmm..."

Best wishes,

Arthur

Arthur A. Jones
arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com 

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