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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">L-L "Language use" 2008.08.05 (02) [E/S]</span><br>
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<span class="hccdpe">Dear Sandy:</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Subject: LL-L "Language use"</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">I Mark, join the throng of seconders. We LOVE to see your
Scots contributions.</span><br>
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<span class="hccdpe">People, I'm back. The old man had a contratemps with a
puff-adder - a big bugger - on the farm. It happened just outside the kitchen door.
He killed it, but the bastard got the first bite in. The fangs were 5cm apart -
& you know a puffadder can't rear, but all the same this one reached to his
upper calf. It was big, alright. So he threw the corpse in the back of the
bakkie, locked up the house, the farmyard, drove out to the neighbours, opening
& closing three gates on the way & two more on Koos Engelbrecht's land.
He caught the man just on his way out, & said, "Help my nou. 'n slang
het my gepik."</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Well that party tore off with him to the doctor, & there
he waited for three hours for an ambulance from Pietersburg to pick him up
& over the next three hours ferry him to Wilgers
Hospital in Pretoria. Wo no longer have the capacity to
manufacture the antivenine, so the doctor, a real boffin, managed the bite
surgically, by cutting open the skin & the muscle sheath. In this case the
incredible swelling is not contained under pressure which brings capillary
blood-flow brought to a stop, so necrosis is minimal. All he needed really was
a small skin-graft later, & there, to an extent, is how matters stand with
the bite.</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">He is convalescing in a home with frail-care facilities here
outside Pretoria,
among rural Afrikaans elders of his own generation & persuasion. Sadly, he
is not yet able to support his weight on his pins, but we're hoping for the
best. He says the graft is now hurting worse than the rest.</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">As a mere aside, sad to report, no sooner was he off the
farm than itinerants came in with trucks & started carting off whatever
they could lay their hands on. This is happening a lot in South Africa right now, even though we've not
quite gone as far as Zimbabwe.
The one remaining farm-hand he has is a timid fellow, & let it happen. Mind
you, one doesn't need much intimidating with an AKM. The trouble is, they
started by stripping the machinery & plant for the borehole & water
supply, & if anything happens to what little remains there is no water for
him, or anything else. The desert creeps closer. We have taken the cattle off
the land, or they'd be stolen too. The police are no help. Some of them are the
worst scoundrels</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Whatever befalls hereafter, a golden age has passed from
that parcel of land, & out into family memories.</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Talk me some cheer, my canny Scot.</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Vlad: Mickle apologies (I still have Sandy in mind) for not obliging by return of
post with the lyrics you asked for. Let me look at the matter again, & I
hope I can come back to you soon.</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe"> </span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Yrs,</span><br>
<span class="hccdpe">Mark.</span><br>
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