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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p><br><div>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Phonology" 2012.01.109 (02) [DE-EN-NDS]</span><br><br><div class="im">
<div><font size="4">Funny, dear Ingmar, I have slightly different notions of what
some of these expressions mean. You write:</font></div>
</div><blockquote style="MARGIN-RIGHT:0px" dir="ltr"><div class="im">
<div>"ik kan het gras horen groeien" I can hear the grass growing = it's very
silent</div>
</div><div class="im"><div><font size="4"><font size="3">"luisteren naar groeien van het gras" listen to
the grass growing = to be very lazy</font></font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div><font size="4"><font size="4">Now what I learnt is: If you say "Er hört das
Gras wachsen" or "Er kann das Gras wachsen hören" then you mean "He is very
attentive, he can perceive what is practically inaudible/invisible, he knows in
advance what nobody else would have known" -- maybe even "He has second sight".
<em>Sometimes</em>, if said with a derisive undertone, you mean "he sees what is
not there, he fantasizes". </font></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">You write:</font></div>
<div><div class="im">"ik vraog ow toch ok neet, of ene koo grös vret?" I won't ask you either,
whether a cow eats grass? = I 'won't ask you for something obvious
either?<br><br></div><font size="4">In this case you say "Ist der Papst katholisch?"
This is a relatively new idiom, I didn't hear ist in my childhood, but it seems
perfectly logical. "Möchtest du einen Schoko-Keks?" "Hey, ist der Papst
katholisch?!" It is just a strong form of "Yes".</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Hartlich!</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Marlou</font></div>
<div><font size="4"> </font></div>
<div style="margin-left:40px;color:rgb(0,0,153)">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL" target="_blank">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Subject: LL-L
"Phonology" 2012.01.09 (02) [DE-NDS]<br><br>In Dutch we have a few expressions
with "gras":<br>"ik kan het gras horen groeien" I can hear the grass growing =
it's very silent<br>"er geen gras over laten groeien" don't let the grass grow
over it = you start right away with something<br>"luisteren naar groeien van
het gras" listen to the grass growing = to be very lazy<br>"iemand het gras
voor de voeten wegmaaien" to mow away the grass in front of someones feet = to
give someone no opportunity<br>"er schuilt een addertje onder het gras"
there's a viper hiding under the grass = there's a hidden, secret
problem<br>"er groeit nou gras op zijn buik" grass is growing on his belly now
= he's dead and buried now<br>"het gras is altijd groener bij de buren /
buurmans gras is altijd groener " the neighnours' grass is always
greener<br>"het gras is altijd groener aan de andere kant van de heuvel" the
grass is always greener at the other side of the hill<br>=it always seems if
it's better somewhere else, that they have less troubles somewhere
else<br><br>A Low Saxon one (from the Netherlands):<br>"ik vraog ow toch ok
neet, of ene koo grös vret?" I won't ask you either, whether a cow eats grass?
= I 'won't ask you for something obvious
either?<br></div></div><i>
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