<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  -  07 December 2007 - Volume 07
</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(91, 16, 148);">
Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</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 "Lexicon" 2007.12.07 (04) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font color="#ff0000"><b>'_abkündigen_'</b></font> to reject or deny responsibility? (A
 guess based on kündigen, to hand in ones notice)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>Paul Finlow-Bates</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Heiko Evermann</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Heiko.Evermann@gmx.de">Heiko.Evermann@gmx.de</a>></span><span class="lDACoc"></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 "Lexicon" 
2007.12.07 (04) [E]<br><br>
</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Jonny,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">><br>> today I learned two new words- one of them either Dutch or LS, the other
<br>> one<br>> German.<br></div><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;">>     1. *'_Miendientje_'* *neutrum, noun*
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>     2. *'_abkündigen_'* (abgekündigte [Kollekte]) *verbum*</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<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;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Abkündigen is new to you? It is a very common word in religious slang, at least in the Lutheran church.</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 meaning depends on the context:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">1) usually it refers to informations about future events, then it is equivalent to "ankündigen" => engl. "to announce"
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">2) it can also refer to informations about past events, such as the results of the collections of last week. One example is in
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.kirche-dithmarschen.de/einaus.htm" target="_blank">http://www.kirche-dithmarschen.de/einaus.htm
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(Context: people who leave the church) "In einigen Gemeinden wird der
Austritt dann auch von der Kanzel abgekündigt." Here, too, "to
announce" would be appropriate in English.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://dict.leo.org/" target="_blank">
dict.leo.org</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> suggests:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">* to announce from the pulpit [rel.]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">* to proclaim from the pulpit [rel.]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
> Only the best of you will win....<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">???</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;">
Hartlich Gröten,</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;">Heiko</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Lexicon<br><br>Johannes, <br>o Magnificent Master of Myriads of Mysteries, 
<br>o Potent Purveyor and Poser of Perplexing Puzzles,<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1. *'_Miendientje_'* *neutrum, noun*
</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A compound consisting of Low Saxon </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">mien
</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'my', 'mine', and </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dien</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'thy', 'thine', all dolled up with dainty diminutizing decoration (a package that would work just as well for Roland and our other West Flemish friends).
</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;">What does it mean? Easy-peasy! Naturally it denotes a divider (one of those bar or stick thingies) used to separate different customers' purchases on a supermarket checkout conveyor belt thingamabob contraption.
</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;">So there! Anything else, o Master?</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;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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