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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 10 March 2009 - Volume 06<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Roger Hondshoven</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language diversity" 2009.02.20 (03)
[A/E]</span><br>
<br>
Hi Ron,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">You
wrote</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 191, 191);">:Â Congratulations,
Ruth and Mark! Keep those little footsies running!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">I didn't get the meaning of <em>footsie..</em> A Dutch homophone is <em>foetsie</em>, meaning "verdwenen,
weg". Certainly not applicable to your sentence. Â Wikipedia came up
with the following explanations:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Footsies</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, <b>playing footsies</b> or <b>footsie</b> is a form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirt" target="_blank" title="Flirt">flirtation</a>
in which people use their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot" target="_blank" title="Foot">feet</a> to play with each other's feet. This
generally takes place under a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_%28furniture%29" target="_blank" title="Table (furniture)">table</a> while rubbing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot" target="_blank" title="Foot">feet</a>,
particularly the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_%28foot%29" target="_blank" title="Sole (foot)">soles</a> of the feet, against their
partners' feet. Occasionally, one will continue up his or her partner's legs,
and sometimes in their partner's groin (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footjob" target="_blank" title="Footjob">footjob</a>).
Participants often remove their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe" target="_blank" title="Shoe">shoes</a> and play <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot" target="_blank" title="Barefoot">barefoot</a>,
however it can also be played in socks, or wearing shoes. Footsies above the
knee are also known as thighsies. Footsies generally is used to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting" target="_blank" title="Flirting">flirt</a>
with sexual partners, particularly ones with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_fetish" target="_blank" title="Foot fetish">foot fetish</a>, though it can also be done without an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroticism" target="_blank" title="Eroticism">erotic</a>
intent.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Did you have this in mind?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Roger
Hondshoven<br>
Diest (East-Brabant) Belgium</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">----------</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F.
Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Idimatica<br>
<br>
Hi again, Roger! It's nice to hear from you again. I see you're working your
way through some pretty old mail. ;-)<br>
<br>
My reference to "footsies" was a semi-inside "joke" to much
earlier correspondence with Ruth and Mark.<br>
<br>
I used "footsie" in the sense of "little foot" (like Dutch <i>voetje</i>),
and Ruth and Mark retorted (supposedly jokingly) by alluding to the erotic
twist (which you cite above). It's just silliness.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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