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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 03
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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(91, 16, 148);">
Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</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" 2007.11.16 (02) [E]<br><br>Hi all,<br><br>Thanks, Ron, for explaining the LS troetelnaampie-forms deriving from Elizabeth.
<br><br>Jikes, veteran does sound somewhat old, doesn't it? As it is, some of my colleagues do call me 'Gogo' which means grandma in Zulu.<br><br>You may call me the Lyster, a kind of thrush, for whom I have immense gratitude for providing calming calls after 4 am when fear chased the sleep away. But it is the same little bugger who messes up my neatly raked bundles of leaves, then pitches its head to a side to listen out for a bug's frightened shuffle.
<br><br>Of course this has nothing to do with morphology.<br><br>Cheerio,<br><br>Elsie Zinsser<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">
>In Low Saxon of Germany and in German, it's both the first and middle parts.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Low Saxon: Liesbeth > Else*, Elsi, Elli, Elsje, Elke*, Lisa, Liese, Lies, Liesel
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Else and Elke have become proper names in their own right.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Elsie, since you are one of the veterans and a well-known and well-respected mainstay of Lowlands-L you ought to get one of those "The ..." names. But that might end up being The Elster, and Elster is German for 'magpie'. Not suitable! (Not only are they thievish, but they like to attack people when they nest, as I have experienced many times). If we went to the original Elizabeth, we might end up with The Lister. Hmm...
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Interesting to watch Ingmar's and Jonny's attempts to make a derivation of my legal name stick. Probably the only thing I used to like about the name was that it was hard to come up with a derived form that sounded right. Some people tried. Most didn't dare. These days I'm far more open to it than when I was young and working on my dignity and image and was cultivating an intimidating presence. The first people I allowed to get away with it (Reinchen, det Reinchen) was a very nice young couple from Berlin, travel companions in Norway. The name "Rein" [rEIn] is pretty common in Estonia.
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Cheerio!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="HcCDpe">Reinhard/Ron<br></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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