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===============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language use"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beste Ron,</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><div><div>You wrote:</div><div><br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">P.S.:
Talking about T-shirts ... Yesterday, in a Chinese supermarket here in
Seattle, I saw a woman of East Asian extraction wearing a T-shirt with
Low Saxon "De Smeerlappen" printed on it in large letters. I wanted to
ask her about it, but she disappeared in the crowd. Originally <i>Smeerlappen</i> means something like "grease rag," and <i>de</i> means "the." Now, the German equivalent <i>Schmierlappen</i> can also mean something that in English is "sleaze ball" or "slime bag." <br>
</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>May
refer to a Belgian movie. "De Smeerlappen" was released in 1993...I
wonder though if T-shirts last that long...even Belgian quality has its
limits ;=):</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://farm.imdb.com/title/tt0286128/" target="_blank">http://farm.imdb.com/title/tt0286128/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===================================================<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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