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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p>From:<span class="gD"> Henno Brandsma</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl">hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl</a></span><div class="iw"> </div>Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Semantics" 2011.11.15 (03) [EN]</span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<br></p><font size="2"></font><div class="ajy"><img class="ajz" id=":7v" tabindex="0" src="images/cleardot.gif" alt=""></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" type="cite"><div><div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
Subject: <font size="2">Semantics<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>I've
long been intrigued by the semantic development of the word complex
"dear" within the Germanic languages, and I wonder if you have any
information to add.<br>
<br>"Dear" and its relatives can mean the following:<br></font><ol><li><font size="2">highly valued (dear to one's heart)</font></li><li><font size="2">expensive (having a high price)<br></font></li></ol><font size="2">Clearly, the common denominator is "valuable" or "valued."<br>
<br>In the English-speaking world there appears to be a split: <br></font><ol><li><font size="2">American
English uses "dear" only in the first-mentioned sense, with idiomatic
exceptions (i.e., supposedly archaisms) such as "to pay a dear price" or
"to pay dearly."<br>
</font></li><li><font size="2">Non-American English, at least many
varieties of it, uses "dear" in both senses. Thus, for instance, in
Australian English you may say something like "Computers are very
expensive" and "Computers are very dear." The latter sounds strange to
most American.<br>
</font></li></ol><font size="2">How does this play out in related language varieties?<br></font><ul><li>Scots:<i> dear</i><i> </i><font size="2"><i> </i>both 'expensive' and 'dear'</font></li><li><font size="2">West Frisian: </font><i>djoer</i><font size="2"> both 'expensive' and 'dear'</font></li>
</ul></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Nee, djoer kin yn it Westerlauwer Frysk allinnich op priis slaan. </div><div>Al bestiet der in, tinkt my, lienwurd "dierber". </div><div><br></div>Groetnis,<div><br>
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Henno<font size="2"><br></font></div></div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#888888"><div style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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