<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 - 17 June 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2007.06.16 (07) [E/LS]</span><br><br><div>
<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Angelus™">Beste jonny</font></span></font></div><span class="q">
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<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Angelus™">"kannst dat noch commod lees'n<font face="AdLib Th">?</font>? Wenn nich- denn bruukst Du en nieuve Brill, miin Jongje! "</font></span></font></div></span>
<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Angelus™">"Can you read that as 'commod'?? If not, then you need new glasses, my lad!"</font></span></font></div><span class="q">
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<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Angelus™">"Haar 'ck in Diin Öller jüst sou maakt- hebb 'ck ouk vandage noch plezeer an."</font></span></font></div></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">But here I get lost!!! Please a quick translation! Many thanks</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"><font size="2">Allerbest!</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Angelus™" size="2">Heather<br><br>----------<br><br></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Idiomatica</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jonny's use of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
kommood'</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> is now clearer to me: in this case "easily" or "with ease", i.e. "well", "without problems".</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I guess I would use </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">goud</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
(</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">good</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">) 'good', 'well', or </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
lichtfardig</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 'easily' here.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Further on the semantic spread of loans of French </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">commode</span><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;">German has </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kommode </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
'chest of drawers', 'bureau'</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Somewhat old-fashioned American English "commode" is used as a taboo replacement for "toilet".
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I suppose the common sememe is *"convenient(ly)".</span><br><br></span><span class="q">
<div><font size="2"><span><font face="Angelus™"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">"Haar 'ck in Diin Öller jüst sou maakt- hebb 'ck ouk vandage noch plezeer an."</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">
<br></font></span></font></div></span>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"I did it just like that when I was your age, and I still enjoy it these days."</span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br></span></div></div><br>