<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 31 May 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Maria Elsie Zinsser</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <
<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2007.05.30 (04) [E]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hi all,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks Mark, I was rattling my brain for cognites of the
'doot blieven' type, and 'in die slag bly' is probably the closest to
'dood bly', although it will not surprise me if the latter is still
alive in remote pockets of </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Afrikaans. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I have to
point out that 'in die slag bly' ("died") does not relate to human
demise but rather to the demise of a concept, idea, quality, etc. For
example:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">-Die konsep ontwerp is aanvaar maar die finale bou van die rots boor het </span>
<u style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in die slag gebly</u><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> vanweë die hoë kostes.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
-Ten spyte van die sukses wat albei op akademiese vlak behaal het, het hulle huwelik ongelukkig </span><u style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in die slag gebly</u><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">-Gert is van die prokureursrol geskrap en daarna het sy aansien in die dorp ook </span><u style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in die slag gebly</u><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Groete,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
Elsie Zinsser<br><br></span>