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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 15 November 2007 - Volume 04
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">
Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Morphology"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Ron(neman) *s*,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Seriously, though, if there isn't a fancy-shmancy term for "endearing"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> in linguistics (and I'm not aware of any), I would suggest something</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> like "affectative" with subcategories like "diminutive affectative"
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> (or "affectative diminutive"), "jocular affectative."</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Dutch, we call this a "koosnaam(pje)" or "troetelnaam".</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Why not a "pet name"?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The term "petting" itself may not be appropriate though I guess :-D ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>Luc Hellinckx<br>
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de
</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Morphology" 2007.11.15 (01) [E]</span><br><br></span><div id="1fk8" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear
Kevin,</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you
wrote:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">The British Long Land Pattern musket
was commonly referred to as Brown Bess (one theory is that this was derived from
the German phrase 'braun buss' meaning 'brown gun').<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></font></div>
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<div align="left"><span><font face="Courier New">I guess
your information is from the English wikipedia- but I fear that's wrong. There
are, for my knowledge, no German phrases like 'braun buss' or 'brawn buss'- the
only correct German word here just is 'braun'. Perhaps the authors of
that article mixed it up with the famous 'Browning'-guns, which indeeed are very
famous in Germany.</font></span></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div></div>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="lDACoc"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">Morphology<br><br>Salew, Lewkster!<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">
> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">In Dutch, we call this a "koosnaam(pje)" or "troetelnaam".</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
It's </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kosename </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in German. I can't think of a Low Saxon equivalent. Anyone?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> Why not a "pet name"?</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That's not "fancy-shmancy" linguistic, is it? It's supposed to sound "educated" so ordinary people don't know what mundane thing you're talking about. ;-)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
> Beste Ron(neman) *s*,</span><br></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That's kind of nice in that it sounds rather familiar, something we would say in Northern Germany. We used to call and sometimes still do call my (much younger) brother (Michael ['miCa?El]) "Michimann" (['miCiman]). You could add this "-mann" to shortened forms of most men's names if you feel so inclined (Fietemann, Kallermann, Hansemann, Fredimann, Nikomann, Paulemann, Franzmann,* Wallimann, Rolimann, Lukemann, etc.).
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Now you just need to add the said "s" (Ronnemans) and it sounds like a Dutch or Belgian surname.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In actual fact, I just did a quick search and found Ronnemans as a Dutch surname as well as a pet name!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Groetjes,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
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