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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 01 June 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: "ds" <<a href="mailto:dstokely@infionline.net">dstokely@infionline.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: idioms</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Ron - </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope it doesn't sound too scatological, but with this below my
mind saw a reference to breaking wind. Could that be what the idiom refers
to? A little humor, perhaps?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Stokely </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
From: jonny <</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Subject:
LL-L "Idioms"</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">these days I found an interesting idiom I don't understand
though I mean to</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">understand each single word. It is handed down from the
Hanseatic merchants</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">of the 14th/15th century and written in Middle Low
Saxon:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*"vynde boddeme maket vynde gut unde vynde gut maket vynde
boddeme"*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*vynde:* *1.
winds*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">* 2.
enemies*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">**</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*boddeme:* *1. the bottom(s) of a of
ship*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
*2. (a) special type of
ship(s)*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*
3. (a) shallow part(s) of the sea, near the coast, in</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">special used in the
Baltic Sea*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">**</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*maket:** make (3rd pers.
sing/pl)*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">**</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*gut:**
good*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">**</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*unde:* *and*</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Who is able to solve
this conundrum?</span><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;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: What does it mean?<br><br>Oh, David, dear David,<br><br>Who can blame you with temptation so great? <br><br>And indeed, for all we know it is a clever Hanseatic word-play aphorism about stooping to the very bottom (<i>boddem</i>) by taking advantage of the winds (<i>vynde</i>) at one's disposal and thus blow one's enemies (<i>vynde</i>) out of the game, even if only by stunning and confusing them for a few seconds.<br>
<br>It was wonderful to hear from you anyway.<br><br>The Kahuna has cracked a smile.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br></span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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