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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(0, 104, 28);">Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</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 "Lexicon" [A]</span><br><div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-GB">
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<p><span><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Haai julle,</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;">Mark, dis 'n plesier. Die Towenares was nie in my Groot
Verseboek nie maar Google weet alles.<br>Dit was vir my ook 'n ontdekking en dankie aan Theo vir
die vraagje. Ek dink dat Marais lank sy<br>tyd vooruit was en dat hy nie genoeg erkenning kry vir sy
vreemd moderne aanslag nie.<br>Ek het hier in
my hand 'Mumtaz' se 'Kajal with almond oil for sensitive eyes', en Wikipedia
laat weet<br>die volgende;</span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><b><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN">Kohl</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="EN"> is a mixture of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soot" title="Soot" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">soot</span></font></a> and other ingredients used
predominantly by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">Middle Eastern</span></font></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">North African</span></font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">Sub-Saharan
African</span></font></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">South Asian</span></font></a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman" title="Woman" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">women</span></font></a>, and to a lesser extent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man" title="Man" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">men</span></font></a>, to darken the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyelid" title="Eyelid" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">eyelids</span></font></a> and as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascara" title="Mascara" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">mascara</span></font></a> for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyelash" title="Eyelash" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">eyelashes</span></font></a>. Kohl {from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">Arabic</span></font></a> كحل <span title="DIN 31635 Arabic"><span><span>kuḥl</span></span></span>)
is also sometimes spelled <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">kol</span></b>, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">kehal</span></b> (in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">Arab world</span></font></a>), or <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">kohal</span></b>, and is known as <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">surma</span></b> or <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">kajal</span></b>
in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">South Asia</span></font></a>. It is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymon" title="Etymon" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">etymon</span></font></a> of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol" title="Alcohol" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">alcohol</span></font></a>."<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#cite_note-DCECH-0" title="" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">[1]</span></font></a></sup></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="EN">Kohl has been worn traditionally as far back
as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">Bronze Age</span></font></a> (3500 B.C.
onward). Kohl was originally used as protection against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye" title="Eye" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">eye</span></font></a> ailments. Darkening around the
eyelids also provided relief from the glare of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" title="Sun" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">sun</span></font></a>. Mothers would also apply kohl to
their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant" title="Infant" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">infants</span></font></a>' eyes soon
after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth" title="Birth" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">birth</span></font></a>. Some did this to
"strengthen the child's eyes," and others believed it could prevent
the child from being cursed by an "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye" title="Evil eye" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">evil eye</span></font></a>".<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#cite_note-hardy_cairo-1" title="" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">[2]</span></font></a></sup></span></font></p>
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<p><span><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></span></p></div>
Groete,
<p><span><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Elsie <span> </span><span> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;">From: <span>Mark Dreyer</span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">mrdreyer@lantic.net</span></font></a>></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.06.10 (05) [A/E]</span></span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">
<div>Beste </div></span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Elsie en Theo:</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Onderwerp:</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"> LL-L
"Lexicon"</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Ek kan my vererg dat ek nie die
'Eugene' Marais gesnap het nie, my keudigter in Afrikaans.</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Terloops, ek praat onder korreksie,
maar is kohl nie 'n vorm van kopererts nie? Daar is myne ontdek in Swaziland
wat tientalle duisend jare gelede glo bewerk is vir 'kohl', waar kopererts
ontgin word. Die ertsoplossing is eens in Egipte met gestook affineer, en
in gelyke wyse toe die alkahol uit gebrou uit. Om die rede het ons die woord
alkahol uit die Arabies 'al kohl'.</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Ek dink aan u stelling, Elsie, oor die
snoesige, langdurige hitte van swart-doringhout en die hoflikheid
daarbyvorbonde. Vir seker is dit wat saak maak, want is die stem van die
storieverteller asook die danslied en die versoek om haar te hoor nie saam
met die jagterswederkoms (iedereen in teendeel nie-towenaarlike verdrywe)
heen nie?</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Dankie vir die gedig en die ontdekking.</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Die uwe,</span></font><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE"></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font color="black" face="Batang" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Batang; color: black;" lang="DE">Mark</span></font><br></div><br>