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L O W L A N D S - L - 09 January 2007 - Volume 02<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Kevin and Cheryl Caldwell <<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.08 (02) [E/German]<br><br><span class="q">> From: Andrys Onsman <
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au">Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.07 (06) [E]<br>> To: Paul Tatum
<br>> From: Andrys Onsman<br>> Re: Idiomatica<br>><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">> One of my favourite expressions "Don't take any wooden nickels"<br>> apparently comes from the Depression days when people would cover
<br>> similar sized pieces of wood with foil to try to fool the recipient into<br>> accepting it as a 10 cent piece.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">By
the way, a nickel is five cents, not ten (a 10-cent piece is a dime).
That's why Fifth Street is called "The Nickel" and, in American
football, a defensive formation with five backs is called a "nickel
defense" (a more typical formation has four backs).<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="sg"><br>Kevin Caldwell<br><br>----------<br><br></span>From: <span id="_user_Zweep@bigpond.com" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">
Hugo Zweep <<a href="mailto:Zweep@bigpond.com">Zweep@bigpond.com</a>></span><span id="_user_kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.07 (05) [E]an]
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Andrys</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Elsie seems to be occupied elsewhere. Could I,
while we're waiting, try?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Could it be "mooi blijven", just as I have heard
people say "stay nice" when someone seemed to be drifting towards the
unacceptable?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">By the way, it was good meeting your brother a
month or so back.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hugo Zweep<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Elsie Zinsser <<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za
</a>></span><span id="_user_kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span><br>
Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.07 (05) [E]an]<br>
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi all, <span> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Andrys, if someone says, "Mooi bly", you'd
simply respond with "Dankie! Jy ook!" unless the person will be driving away and then you'd say "Mooi ry!" </span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Interesting thing is that in Zulu, the
greeting is "Hamba kahle" (go softly) and the one leaving says: "Sala kahle"
(stay softly).</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I bet Afrikaans speakers adapted this
style from Zulu or Xhosa. </span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Groetnis,</span></font></span></p><span class="sg">
<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Elsie Zinsser <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></font></span></p></span><font size="2"><span class="q">
<p><font color="black" face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">From: <span>Andrys Onsman <<a href="mailto:Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.05 (03) [E]<br>
</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Dear all<br>
Amongst my emails this moin, um, morning, there were those discussing <br>
moi and moin, and another unrelated one from a colleague in South Africa<br>
that ended with Moi bly! Apart from the spooky coincidence, what if any<br>
is the connection, and Elsie, what should I use in reply?<br>
<br>
Cheers <br>
Andrys</span></font>
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