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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marcel Bas</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:roepstem@hotmail.com">roepstem@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Grammar" 2008.09.05 (01) [E]</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Hi Elsie,</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">You wrote something about "aan 't" and
"aan die". Is it equivalent to 'besig om te..."" ? So is
the definition the same? "in the progress of"? "Ek is aan 't
lees/Ek is aan 't lese" (with old infinitve Dutch -e even!) = "Ek is
besig om te lees"?</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The particle 't' here is a remnant of Dutch 'het',
which means 'the'. "aan 't beweeg" = "aan het bewegen";
litterally, in English "on the move". The same 't' you find in
"as 't ware".</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Best regards,</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Marcel.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi
all,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
<span style="color: navy;">I was looking at Henno's example and thinking how very
similar the streeks-Afrikaans is, as for example:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Hy
is aan't hardloop. [aan het. Modern Afr: aan die]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Die
kind se maag is aan't spoel. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Waar
is mamma? Sy is aan't kook in die kombuis.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Na
'n uur in die verkeer is ons darem nou aan't beweeg.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="DE">Elsie
Zinsser </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="DE">From: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="DE">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> <span lang="DE"><</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="DE">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="DE">></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"><br>
<span style="color: black;">Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.09.01 (05) [E]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Henno wrote: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">and in "oan it...." constructions (these can be seen as
nominalisations, at some level):</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- Hy is oan it rinnen (he is walking (right now)).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Dear Henno</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Thank you so much for that ( very clear) explanation. I now have a
2nd question!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">re the above extract " ..oan it .." does
this have an analysis / origin / as clear an explanation, please?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">bestw ishes</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 65.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Heather</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br style="">
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