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L O W L A N D S - L - 12 September 2008 - Volume 03<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Douglas Hinton</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:douglas.hinton@gmail.com">douglas.hinton@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2008.09.12 (01) [E]</span><br>
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I tried this in Babelfish.Yahoo and got in dutch " De honden ontschorsen
weg hun hoffen."<br>
I took this sentence and translated back to english and got" The dogs
debark their accounts."<br>
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I can't think of a way to say this in danish, and Babelfish.Yahoo doesn't offer
any scandinavian language translation.<br>
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Regards, Douglas<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Idiomatica<br>
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Hi, Douglas!<br>
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I believe this is your first posting.<br>
<br>
Congratulations and welcome!<br>
<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Idiomatica"</span><br>
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Beste Jorge,<br>
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You wrote:</span></p>
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Our weekly English writers group (all displaced to </span>Puerto
Rico<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">--includes a Dutch woman, an Australian, a Sardinian and two
/gringos)/ was wondering if it is possible to say, "The dogs are barking
their heads off" in Dutch?</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">In Standard Dutch, I would say "De honden blaffen zich suf". More
graphic: "De honden blaffen zich de longen uit het lijf". </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">It can be discussed whether a dog
has a soul or not, but if you tend to believe he does, you could also use the
phrase "De honden blaffen zich de ziel uit het lijf". As an aside,
butchers call the "ziel" of an animal, the meat (at the hind part) of
the backbone of bovines/pigs.<br>
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In Brabantish, one might go for "D'honne bass'n eule zot/kapot".<br>
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Kind greetings,<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Luc Hellinckx</span><br style="">
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