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<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 - 26 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_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.25 (05) [A/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Dear Ron & All.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Subject: L-Lowlands "Etymology"</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I stopped my last letter too soon. At what point
does a simile become a metaphor? When we say 'Bitter, soos ware gal'. we are
using an expression that might be literal or figurative: Either way it barely
separates the substance & the colour (healthy gall has a starkly yellow
colour amidst the dark reds of the liver-&-lights, & if cut &
spilled it can spoil an entire carcase with its bitter taint), & some of you
who have had a rural upbringing will not have escaped experience of the
phenomenon that we share with our pre-Victorian ancestors back into remote
antiquity.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">My thesis is that so strong a 'character' as that
'bitter as gall' will supervene any other metaphor in all the languages
closest to the ancestral or root tongue. It is only in English, with such a
separation between the word 'yellow' & the word 'gall', that the metaphore
can be easily attached to something else, like cowardice.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ahem, my pennyworth.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Yrs'</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Mark</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">P.S. Thanks, Ron, for all that Saxon: I LIKE
IT. Quite beside the point, of course, that as a mere aside it shot my
thesis down in flames!</font></div>
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