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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);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Words</span>"<br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">seeing you being
busy with your new projects we should not forget 'Beyond The
Pale'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I should like you
to check some new proposals.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier New"><u><strong>In
category 'Words I like':</strong></u></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">LS:
'anbukken'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">E: 'to abut', 'to
make a child itself feel salvaged in the arms of mom or dad'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I like this word,
which probably was my very first Low Saxon one, because it took all dangers, all
harm of the world from my babyish soul. It is also used in the Northern dialects
of Standard German, because there is no real equivalent in that language, as
well as in English (?).</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><u><strong>In
category 'Words I hate':</strong></u></font></span></div>
<div><span><em></em></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">E:
'motherf..r'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">I hate it, because
for my feeling it is so cruel and obscene like just very few words in
any language I know. And meanwhile it starts to become part of the vocabulary of
German proles, too.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><u><strong>In
category 'False Friends':</strong></u></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">E: 'tank', meaning
an armoured vessel</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Tank', meaning
a bin, a container</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><u><strong>and same
category:</strong></u></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">East Frisian Low
Saxon: 'Bomme', meaning 'milk can'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Bombe', meaning
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">E:
'bomb'</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><u><font face="Courier New"><strong>In
category 'Words To Confuse':</strong></font></u></span></div>
<div><span><strong></strong></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Maräne', meaning a fish of
the <em>coregonidae</em>-family (G: also 'Renke'; E: 'whitefish
[??])</font></span></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Marone',
meaning E: 'chestnut'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Moräne',
meaning the geological relics of the glacier time, the
'moraine'</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span><font face="Courier New">G: 'Muräne', meaning another
fish, the 'moray (eel)'</font></span></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span></span></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span>...and some more stepping stones of this
kind:</span></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span></span></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span>G: 'Matrone', E: 'matron'</span></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New"><span>G: 'Makrone', E: 'macaroon'.</span></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">This for
today...</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Allerbest<span>, and have a nice weekend,
alltogether!</span></font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New">Jonny Meibohm</font></div><br><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;">
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<font size="3">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font size="3">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a></div>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">Subject: Words<br><br>Thanks, Jonny. I'll add them to <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a> as soon as I get a chance, at least after you got some feedback.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</font><br><br>