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From: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries <<a href="mailto:Kreimer@jpberlin.de">Kreimer@jpberlin.de</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.01.01 (02) [E]<br>
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Am 30.11.2008 um 23:59 schrieb Jorge Potter:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">So now we
know that musically "rag" means a piece of old cloth from Old English
ragge, related to rugged and Old Norse rögg = tuft.</span></span></p>
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Thank you very much, dear Jorge,<br>
<br>
for your final clarification of the semiotic background of the modern term
"ragtime" (music) and the deplorable racist connotation. That's a
necessary completion of the harmless things they gave in the radio feature I'd
listened to.<br>
<br>
My interest in the term "rag" was mainly linguistic, semantic. But
I'm not a linguist, so my construction in "Etymology" 2008.11.25 may
be erroneus and pure "folk's etymology".<br>
<br>
But for my simple feeling the Old Norsk "raggaðr [shaggy]" and the</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">piece of
old cloth from Old English ragge, related to rugged and Old Norse rögg = tuft</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
seem to be nearby, in wording and meaning. And would both fit in my
speculation:</span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The central
meaning should be that of describing the surface of things as
"shaggy", in contradiction to "even" or "plain",
with pinnacles, spikes, fractions, vertices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
But this can remain unresolved, I just hoped to enrich - with
"raggen", "raggig" some LS varieties with another - as such
useful - word stem...<br>
<br>
Goutgaun!<br>
joachim<br>
--<br>
Kreimer-de Fries<br style="">
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