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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 20 October 2008 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jonny</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "History"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Dear
Lowlanners,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">many
friends already have aked me: what the heck are you doing there, on LL-L?
What could be so fascinating in (old) languages? My answer often is:
for me it is a kind of "archeology without a spade".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">But three
days ago I got a chance to act as an 'physical' archeologist, again without any
digging equipment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I
had bought a bag with potatoes in our local super market. Its origin was McPomm
(nickname for the German low-landic province
of <em><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</span></em>),
as the label showed. I opened it the other day to cook some of the potatoes
together with carrots and a 'rutabaga' (<em><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Steckrübe</span></em>),
with some bacon and smoked ox-meat (the whole menu is called in LS
_Jichen_ or _Jüchen_, meaning 'anything'). Surprisingly I found a rock among
the potatoes, and so I stated for myself that I had payed too much for them
;-)!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">But
then the real surprise came: looking closely to that rock I realised that it
wasn't just a grown stone but an artefact, probably a tool from the
Neolithicum! It wasn't complete but broken at one edge, though one
still could suppose it to have been the head of a kind of hammer, which e.g.
may have been used for killing or to open bones to scratch out the marrow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Last
but not least - when I showed it to my son it fell out of my hand down on
the flagged floor of my kitchen. The result: the tool splintered into several
pieces, and one of the flagstones was severely damaged :-(!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">And
the moral of the story? In future I'll prefer to remain with
etymological archeology; it's better for my kitchen ;-)!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Allerbest,
and good health for you, Reinhard!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Jonny
Meibohm</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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