<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 13 January 2007 - Volume 01<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2007.01.12 (03) [LS]<br><br>Beste Reini, Heiko,
<br><br>Du schreyvst:<br><br>> Na mien W äten hebbt Göös' wull "Fööt".<br>Hebbt dey normool ne' 'Paddeln'? Denn kunnen dat doch 'Paddelteyken' waarn...<br>Un- Goys pett' fooken inne Mutt rüm- denn weyrn't 'Muttrokers' or 'Schiitpetters'.
<br><br>'n ennige Oort van Diminutiv kunn 'ck man alleyn van 't Letzte moken: 'Schiitpetties'.<br><br>Greutens/Regards<br><br>Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Language maintenance' 2007.01.12 (06) [E]<br>
<br><span class="q">>From: MWI <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:wintzermichel@wanadoo.fr">wintzermichel@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>>Subject: LL-L 'Language maintenance'
2007.01.12 (01) [E]<br>><br>>Ron, I think there are two sides of the<br>>coin: Fernsprecher sounds funny, everyone<br>>says Telefon.<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;">I am so old that I was taught TWO words for telephone: Fernsprecher and Fernhör.
<br>I have frequently used them as examples of how a language has to invent<br>new words for new inventions and how these can just as easily go out of use<br>as the device is improved.<br><br>The Fernsprecher/ Fernhör suited the wall mounted early telephones with separate
<br>mouthpiece and earpiece<br><br>And I seem to remember seeing Fernsprecher as a sign in Post Offices still<br>in the 60s.<br><br>But as the invention developed and became all of a piece -which word was<br>to be used? Easy to reject both and use Telephon! and then Telefon.
<br><br>How did Handy come about? What's that from? It sounds more like a comment<br>than a name!<br><br>best wishes<br><br>Heather [Rendall]<br><br>
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