<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 - 25 July 2007 - Volume 09</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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 "Style" 2007.07.25 (01) [E]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi!</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Yes,
Afrikaans is for a large part made up of such truncated forms. </span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Some of
the older forms still exist in small rural pockets:</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">D. over –
A. oor (but there is a region called the Overberg around Swellendam)</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">oge – n. oë [plural] </span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">lager – n.
laer [laers]</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">klage – kla v. [n. klaers] <span> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">blader – n. blaar [blare]</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">mager – adj.
maer</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">vader / moeder – n. vaar / moer</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Regards,</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Elsie Zinsser</span></font></span></p>
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</span></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Lowlanders help me out. As the poets in English have used
truncated or "slurred" words like <i><span style="font-style: italic;">ope</span></i>
for open, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">oer</span></i> for over, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">neer</span></i> for never, have the other LL
languages done similarly?<br>
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</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><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </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;">Subject: LL-L "Style" 2007.07.25 (07) [A/D/E]</span>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi all,</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mark, I
don't know why the hê (to have) in Afrikaans is so weird.</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Canadian
Mennonite Plaut 'ha' sounded very familiar to my ears, as in</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">"Ekj wel kofi ha!"</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Also your A.
'opening' is pure Anglicism. The more accepted Afrikaans </span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">forms are 'geleentheid'
or 'vakture' (job opening) unless of course you meant </span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">'opening' as
in a hole in the wall, then of course 'gat' is a better choice. <span> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Groete,</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Elsie Zinsser</span></font></span></p></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE"><span></span></span></font></span><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">
From: </span></font><font color="#5b1094"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);"><span>Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mrdreyer@lantic.net
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Subject: LL-L "Style" 2007.07.25 (01) [E]</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font>
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<p style="margin-left: 36pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"></span></font><span class="q"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">A lass from Rotterdam asked me how we
say 'hebben' to 'have' & when I told her ; 'hê', she had a fit of
giggles, </span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">'Oop'
means 'open' but 'opening' (Afrikaans) is 'opening' (English).</span></font></p></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">