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=========================================================================<br></div><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(121, 6, 25);">Kevin and Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></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 "Words" 2008.03.28 (05) [E]<br><br></span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">n the example
Sandy cites below, I would say that "most" means neither "mostly" nor "almost",
but "much" (i.e., "much too slow" or "way too slow").</span></font>
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<p><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Kevin Caldwell</span></font></p></font><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From: <span><font color="#790619"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy
Fleming</span></font></span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" target="_blank">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Words" 2008.03.27 (04) [E]</span></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> From: Karl-Heinz Lorenz <<a href="mailto:Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net" target="_blank">Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.03.27 (02) [E]<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> To start it, what about:<br>
><br>
> LS meist = E almost; usually <> German meist = E most(ly)<br>
><br>
> But I'm afraid that the (High-)German meaning is also used in LS.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Although there are
English dialects with "most" for "almost", eg in the<br>
traditional blues song "Key to the Highway":<br>
<br>
I'm going down on the border<br>
Where I'm better known,<br>
Gonna leave here running, cause<br>
Walking is most too slow.<br>
<br>
Unless this means "mostly", but I think I've seen this use of
"most" for<br>
"almost" in other places.<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span></font></span></font></p></div></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;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></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 "Words" 2008.03.29 (05) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
suppose I'll officially publish the new site around April 15, namely by
connecting to it from our other sites. In the meantime we ought to try
to "populate" all the pages.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I think maybe April 14th is a slightly
more auspicious launch date (it being Thai Solar New Year (Songkran),
Nepali New Year (of the 2065), Sikh New Year (of the year 3109, and
Sinhala/Tamil New Year).</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;">April 15th, on the other hand, while it is Assamese New Year (Bohag
Bihu), in many peoples minds (in North America anyway) it is associated
with the day taxes are due!</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;">I KNOW this proposal gives us one LESS day to get things ready, but ...</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;">MWM || マイク || Мика || माईक || માઈક || ਮਾਈਕ</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;">Dr Michael W Morgan</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Managing Director</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ishara Foundation</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mumbai (Bombay), India</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;">माईकल मोर्गन (पी.एच.डी.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">मेनेजिंग डॉयरेक्टर</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
ईशारा फॉउंडेशन (मुंबई )</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;">茂流岸マイク(言語学博士)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">イシャラ基金の専務理事・事務局長</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ムンバイ(ボンベイ)、インド</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<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(200, 137, 0);">Jorge Potter</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com</a>></span></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 "Words" 2008.03.29 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Jonny Meibohm and all the Lowlanders,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course Slav and slave are confusing. But history seem to show
that western Europeans bought Slavs as slaves, and thus the word passed
into our lingos.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Slavs' side they called themselves "Slavs" or "Slovenes",
or "people of the word (=slovo, sloviti= to speak)". In that they were
like the ancient Greeks, who invented the word "barbarians" for their
neighbors, whose languages sounded like "ba-ba-ba-ba" to the Greeks.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jorge Potter</div>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span>From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.03.28 (06) [E]<br><br></p>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>English <strong>'slave'</strong>: a person deprived of personal freedom and human rights, mainly preyed for heavy labor or service</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>English '<strong>Slav'</strong>: a member of Slavic peoples, an ethnical and etymological group mainly living in Eastern Europe<br><br>----------<br><br>
</span>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Words" 2008.03.29 (03) [E]<br><br></span>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Words<br>
<br>
> By the way, our Sandy doesn't strike me as being the crying type. If<br>
> he can't blow stuff out of the water in one fell swoop he'll invite<br>
> you to dance the tango, and he dances no mean tango, as I know from<br>
> earlier days.<br>
<br>
Oh, I like a good cry every now and then :)<br>
<br>
It's not the tango I dance so much these days. Photo taken a few weeks<br>
ago: <a href="http://www.sandyfleming.org/pics/cancan.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.sandyfleming.org/pics/cancan.jpg</a><br>
<br>
Although I know the terms "false friend" and "shoecabbage", I always<br>
seem to forget there's a difference and just use "false friends" as an<br>
umbrella term. Must try harder!<br>
<br>
Maybe we should add "shoecabbage" to words to love? And "mondegreen"!<br>
<br>
Our favourite word as children was "knickerbockers". They're a sort of<br>
trousers but you could get an ice cream pudding called a "knickerbocker<br>
glory".<br>
<br>
Some Scots <> English false friends:<br>
<br>
Scots "doubt" /dut/ means "reckon". Eg, "I doubt it'll rain the day." (I<br>
reckon it will rain today." This is the opposite of the English meaning<br>
and corresponds more to French usage of the word.<br>
<br>
Scots "storm" means "a fall of snow". Thus a "lying storm" is a<br>
snowfield, a "feeding storm" is snow building up on the ground over a<br>
period of time, and a "stormy winter" is a winter where houses are<br>
snowbound.<br>
<br>
Some of my favourite words in Scots:<br>
<br>
smirr: fine rain coming down in curtains;<br>
rummlegumption: common sense;<br>
soukie-blaw: mouth organ.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></font><br></div><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;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><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: Words</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;">Good thinking re the date, Mike! Considering tax day in the US (which has the largest contingent here) we ought to make it </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">after</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> that so everyone has that monkey off their back.</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;">Thanks for the donations, Sandy. Could you elaborate on the favorites, just a sentence or three each? We publish those in short prose. (I take it "soukie-blaw" literally means "suck-'n-blow". Brilliant!)</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;">Folks, I take it the presentation needs a "light" touch. I've interspersed it with mildly entertaining bits. I'd be grateful if you would keep an eye on things to make sure linguistic errors are corrected. Right now there are two pages like that:</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;">Dutch: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/love_smakelijk.php">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/love_smakelijk.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Scots: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/confuse_scots.php">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/confuse_scots.php</a></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 can find out the meaning of phrases by resting your cursors on the pictures.</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;">Also, Mike and I think it's all right to post responses to people's prose postings. Here is an example: </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/love_snog.php">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/love_snog.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh, and thanks for the </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">photie</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Sandy. I suggest that next time you kick it up (pun intended) by wearing your kilt.</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;">Regards,</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;">
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