<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 - 04 December 2007 - Volume 05
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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);">
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 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">Missingsch<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>
Well done,
Kahuna,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>though I don't
suppose the whole of it was destinated for us ;-)! Let me have a subliminal
doubt about the 'Meissen'-origin....</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
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<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span>R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Uh-oh!<br><br>Thanks, Jonny. Indeed, it wasn't meant to be for you lot, although I was planning on running it by your little eyes later on (when it's finished). My fingers were faster than my poor old mind tonight.
<br><br>And, no, it wasn't the Kahuna's handiwork. What were you thinking?! He wouldn't know Missingsch from a missile or a mistletoe if his life depended on it.<br><br>Anyway, now that the cat is out of the bag, let me tell you that this is intended for the corresponding Wikipedia entry. Please let me know if the originator of the previous version is among us or is known to one among us. That person tried, but it needed a lot of help. I didn't mean to insult him or her, but I couldn't let it stand like that. In fact, I've already posted a good deal of it and hope someone high-handed isn't going to reverse it.
<br><br>The Meissen connection is a well-established fact. Named after a river, the city used to be called something like *<i>Misen(e)</i> in German before the vowel shift and was called something like that in Middle Saxon (thus *
<i>Missensch</i> > <i>Missingsch</i>). It's called <i>Misena</i> in Latin, </span><i>Mišno</i> in (originally native) Upper Sorbian, <i>Míšeň </i>in nearby Czech, and <i>Miśnia </i>in not so distant Polish.<br><br>
Regards, good night, and don't let the bedbugs bite!<br><br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br></div></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">