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L O W L A N D S - L - 17 October 2008 - Volume 06<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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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">LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.10.17 (02) [D/E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Beste</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jonny,
Jacqueline, Arend</span> en Al:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Onderwerp:
LL-L "Lexicon"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Jonny:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">...of
course a 'voetgangster' still is a female pedestrian.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);" lang="NL">Mark:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);" lang="NL">In my kinderjare het ek dit so geniet, dat
die machismo van die Mafioso sloer op die vroulike vorm.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">What
is it about the English language that it irregularly uses the feminine
construction, 'tapster', pollster, 'gangster' & this little gem to all the
devotees of the lowest form of wit, the 'punster'?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Just
a tad further off the beaten track, in the Olden Days a tract from the South
African Agricultural Library circulated a very thorough tract on the use of
DDT, I think, for poison control of the swarming locust in its juvenile stage,
as we call them, 'voetgangers'. The earnest translator Englished <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">that</span></strong> into 'How to
Poison Pedestrians.' Oh, beware, beware the bilingual dictionary!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Die
Uwe,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark.</span></p></div>