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L O W L A N D S - L  -  15 November 2007 - Volume 04
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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology"

Beste Ron(neman) *s*,

You wrote:
> Seriously, though, if there isn't a fancy-shmancy term for "endearing"
> in linguistics (and I'm not aware of any), I would suggest something
> like "affectative" with subcategories like "diminutive affectative"
> (or "affectative diminutive"), "jocular affectative."

In Dutch, we call this a "koosnaam(pje)" or "troetelnaam".

Why not a "pet name"?

The term "petting" itself may not be appropriate though I guess :-D ...

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.15 (01) [E]

 Dear Kevin,

you wrote:

The British Long Land Pattern musket was commonly referred to as Brown Bess
(one theory is that this was derived from the German phrase 'braun buss'
meaning 'brown gun').

I guess your information is from the English wikipedia- but I fear that's
wrong. There are, for my knowledge, no German phrases like 'braun buss' or
'brawn buss'- the only correct German word here just is 'braun'. Perhaps the
authors of that article mixed it up with the famous 'Browning'-guns, which
indeeed are very famous in Germany.

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm

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

Salew, Lewkster!

> In Dutch, we call this a "koosnaam(pje)" or "troetelnaam".

It's *Kosename *in German. I can't think of a Low Saxon equivalent. Anyone?

> Why not a "pet name"?

That's not "fancy-shmancy" linguistic, is it? It's supposed to sound
"educated" so ordinary people don't know what mundane thing you're talking
about.  ;-)

> Beste Ron(neman) *s*,

That's kind of nice in that it sounds rather familiar, something we would
say in Northern Germany. We used to call and sometimes still do call my
(much younger) brother (Michael ['miCa?El]) "Michimann" (['miCiman]). You
could add this "-mann" to shortened forms of most men's names if you feel so
inclined (Fietemann, Kallermann, Hansemann,  Fredimann, Nikomann, Paulemann,
Franzmann,* Wallimann, Rolimann, Lukemann, etc.).

Now you just need to add the said "s" (Ronnemans) and it sounds like a Dutch
or Belgian surname.

In actual fact, I just did a quick search and found Ronnemans as a Dutch
surname as well as a pet name!

Groetjes,
Reinhard/Ron

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