<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 05 March 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_roger.thijs@euro-support.be" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc." <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">
roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2007.03.04 (07) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">As to:<br><br>English: bell | clock | ... o'clock<br>Scots: bell (clock) | clock | ... o'clock (?)<br>L. Saxon: klok (Klock) | klok (Klock) | klok ... (Klock ...)
<br>Dutch: klok | klok ~ uurwerk | ... uur<br><br>in my Limburgish (Lonerlands of Vliermaal):<br><br>5 o'clock = Vaif Oere ("Oe" as in Dutch, "U" in German")<br>12 o'clock = non (is actually an old 9: nonius?)
<br>also for "having lunch" = "non iëte"<br>immediately: "opte sloag" (= "op de slag (van het uurwerk)"?)<br>earlobe: "oorbelle"<br>ring up (someone): "(immand) belle"
<br>the doorbell ringed: "het hèt gebelt"<br><br>Regards,<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">Roger<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Arthur Jones <
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "IdiotAutomatica" 2007.03.04 (04) [E][GO]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lieve Leglanners,</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In 520 AD, Ostrogothic
King (and Roman Emperor in all but name), Thiudareiks, whom we know as
Theodoric the Great, and who was likely a sarcastic bastard, sent his
fellow German (in the larger sense), Odoacer, a water clock made
according to the latest Greco-Roman technology. He wrote a note to go
with it, in which he suggested that Odoacer might take advantage of
learning how to tell time. He added that "only the animals cannot
distinguish between the hours; they know only that it is time to eat or
to sleep. But that is no way for a King to behave in this modern age."</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">They
later engaged in a giant battle near Ravenna, and Theodoric won. After
they signed a peace treaty, Odoacer was invited to a banquet. Whereupon
Theodoric killed him.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Gothic word for "clock" was <em>hweilamitadjo, </em>or "hour measure". </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Also,
I have been reluctant to say this, and I certainly mean no offense. But
I noticed when living in the UK (one year on Guernsey; five years in
London and Bucks), fanciful etymologies were rampant. The quirky story
was always more interesting than the science. Possibly the Brits got
this trait from soldiers and sailors returning from their friendly
jaunts worldwide, taking up the White Man's Burden. Even today, if the
story entertains, few seem to care about its historical accuracy. Like
the canard about edicts permitting Fornication Under Consent of the
King: supposedly centuries before acronyms became popular, and flying
in the face of the evidence, viz., an ancient Indo-European root word
that has correspondent forms in nearly all IE languages. But the
acronym entertains, Proto-Indo-European less so.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Unfortunately,
samey-thingy with our Heather's story about clock/bell. Sorry, Heather. Would that you were right. </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">So etymology disappoints.
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">As
long as we are on the subject of time, try this one on for size, the
Sword of Pernik. Discovered in the 1920s, in the Bulgarian town of
Pernik, this ninth century Germanic sword was inscribed, but hard to
decipher. It was figured out, finally, three years ago. It says:</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">IHININIHUILPID IHINIHUILPN<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"I, within, await not the hour: I, within, <u>AM </u>the hour".</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mith frijandaleikaim goljathaim,</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Arthur<br><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">