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L O W L A N D S - L - 19 January 2009 - Volume 03<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 96);">Robert Haslach</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:roberthaslach@verizon.net">roberthaslach@verizon.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Humor" 2009.01.18 (01) [E]</span><br>
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Now we know who has been helping President Bush 43 with his remarks!<br>
From Washington, DC, in the waning hours of the penultimate
day<br>
Bob Haslach<br>
</span></p><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;">On Jan 18, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Lowlands-L List wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: Roger Hondshoven <<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Humour" 2009.01.17 (02) [E]<br>
Lost in translation.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: Roger Hondshoven <</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">></span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
To: <a href="mailto:LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 5:08:46 PM</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Subject: Lost in translation</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Hi everybody who is familiar with Dutch,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">There's a monthly magazine that is devoted to everything that pertains
to the Dutch language, Onze Taal. The latest number, in January, ran under the
title "Engels in het Nederlands". A few authors discussed the topic
borrowings from Dutch in English and vice versa.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
There is a very humorous article by Jan Kuitenbrouwer, which I would like to
share with you. It all has to do with literal translation fromDutch into
English. It is one of the weirdest things you can imagine. At first it might
not be so self-evident what Kuitenbrouwer actually means. It takes a bit of
puzzling. To give you an idea and put you on the right road I inserted a
few examples (between brackets in italics) of what would have been the original
Dutch text. I hope I'm not spoiling the fun..</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">'Best people!</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
It is me a great honor and fun to have this occasion to aim the word at you on
this memorable instant, a milepole in the history of our, eh, history. Never
shot is always missed, as the philosopher said, and better one egg in the hand
than ten birds in the sky, but with that sideways, globally speaking, I think
we can be proud, and gay, of what we have reached today. Who would have
thought that ever there would come a day for you to listen to a speech that
from start to ending was complete ly farlanguaged (vertaald) through computer!
It's unbelievably! Ah, a simple speech, you say now perhaps, that's small beer.
Maybe, but as they say, he who doesn't honor the small, isn't worth the large.
And 1 insure you, there's still enough that stands to wait us in the future!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
Yesterday, something shot me through the head, that set me to thinking. (Gisteren schoot me iets door het hoofd
dat mij aan 't denken zette.) In the run of times, different cultures
and different nations have developed different languages. Different languages,
but often with very resembling terms and understandings. I am not ovendriving
when I say that a hope of sayings and speechwords, by example, are remarkable
umformulous in numbers of languages. But everydayish words as well! Take a word
like Kleenex. In practically all languages in the world, this means
'paper pocket-cloth'! The same price for (Hetzelfde geldt voor) a word as
ketchup, that in tenfolds of languages inside the world is used for a
sour-sweet tomato sauce, although the recepture tends to walk apart. This is no
coincident! This is a sunclear demon stration of the fundamentous
universalitude of our worldly linguistical heritage, thai successively became
shredded by the walk of history and its centre-escaping forces.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
As they say: completed affairs take no turn, but when it goes around
language, the facts appear to be lying different. Because what are we
seeing? We are seeing a diametrical movement, resulting in a counterforce
towards a turnaround in the opposite direction. Yes, the several character of
the linguistical worldcard makes place for a new, reunificational,
togethertying movement. It lies for the hand that we are following this trend
with red ears and Argus eyes, and that we are trampling for more understudy. So
let me say: all hens on cover! Work on the shop! Oh sure, we will come to stand
before surprises, there will be vipers below the marihuana (adders onder het
gras), maybe the monkey won't come out of the sleeve one-two-three, but this
will not beat us out of the field, because we know; the onkeeper wins. And as
J..C. 'Our Saviour has said: the ball is round, every advantage has its
disadvantage and you can only score if you make a goal. And only time
will learn who will eventually go to iron with the honor, and who will cry all
the way to the sofa, but I give you this on a note: the ivory Tower of </span>Babylon<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"> has had its
longest rime! Let's bring down the walls that divorce us! One world, one
language, one intercourse! The future is laughing at us!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
So raise we now the glass, although I hope there is more than one in the
room, haha, and have some toast. Long live the farlanguage computer!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
</span>Jan Kuitenbrouwer</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Kind regards,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Roger Hondshoven</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style=""></div><p class="MsoNormal">
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