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L O W L A N D S - L * 11 December 2006 * Volume 01<br>======================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>Subject: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">LL-L
'Etymology'<br><br></span>Beste Ron,<br><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><br>you wrote:<br><br>> My mother, who was quite superstitious, often exclaimed "Beschrei das<br>> nicht!"<br><br></span>
</div>Your
mother must have been the Eastern member of your family! The expression
is very common for me because my grandma from East Prussia always liked
to use it. I've never heard it elsewhere since her dead in the
seventies...<br><br>BTW: she also was very superstitious, and I find the same still today with my relatives from the Lunenburg-area.<br>Very
different here, in the marshlands. People here always had to calculate
the rules of the sea, e.g. the tides, the height of spring tide, with
and without the wind coming from a certain direction etc. They always
knew: if you don't build the dikes highly enough no ghost or God would
save you from being drowned! Additional the open artificial landscape
doesn't give much chances for 'trolls' and other mysterious creatures
to hide themselves..<br><br>For the same reasons people here never have
been very religious; their fight against all types of constrained
christianity, always hand in hand with nobility and authority endured
till the 19th century and still results in a distinctive free thinking.<br><br>Greutens/Regards<br><br>Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span><br>
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