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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Lexicon" 2012.07.07 (01) [EN]</span></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I never heard of any such interjection.
However, there is a very common interjection "So!" or "Soso!". "So" originally
means "this way" ("Wir machen das so" = "We do it like this"). If you use the
interjection "So!" it can be meant both affirmatively or with a tinge of doubt
("Ich verlasse dich jetzt! So!" "So..." = "I'll leave you now! There!"
"Well..."). "Soso" is almost always used ironically or indifferently -- with an
underlying meaning of "I know better than you" or simply "You want me to say
something, I didn't listen, so I say Soso". Of course "So?" can also be a
question. You often find it when English dialogue is translated into German: "I
invented the wheel!" "Did you?" = "Ich habe das Rad erfunden!" "So?" Of course
here intonation decides all the meaning. I had an aunt (now dead) who could
pronounce her "Sooo...?" in a way that really crushed you :-)))</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Marlou</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</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">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Lexicon</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">Michael,</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">Like Marlou, I am not aware of "Sa!" or "Sassa!" being used in recent forms of German.</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">The German Wikipedia helps out: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</b><div style="margin-left:40px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Tausendsassa</b>, in Österreich umgangssprachlich auch <b>Wunderwuzzi</b>, ist eine Bezeichnung für eine Person, die sich durch zahlreiche Begabungen auszeichnet. Ein Multitalent bzw. Alleskönner.</div>
<p style="margin-left:40px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Das Wort ist im 18. Jahrhundert entstanden. Es ist eine Hypostasierung
des Zurufs „tausend sa sa!“, einer übertriebenen Steigerung von „sa
sa!“. „Sa Sa“ wurde als Hetzruf für Hunde verwendet (vermutlich aus frz. ça = das). Somit könnte man Tausendsassa übersetzen mit: "Tausend dies und das."</p><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My rough translation: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin-left:40px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><b>Tausendsassa</b></i>,<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Austria</span> <span class="hps"></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">colloquially</span><span> also </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><b><i><span class="hps">Wunderwuzzi</span></i></b><span>,</span> <span class="hps">denotes</span> <span class="hps">a person who</span> <span class="hps">is simply bursting with</span> <span class="hps">talents</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">A</span> <span class="hps">multi-talented person, or an</span> <span class="hps">all-rounder.</span><br>
<br> <span class="hps">The word</span> <span class="hps"></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">emerged</span><span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">in the 18th</span> <span class="hps">century</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">It</span> <span class="hps">is a</span> <span class="hps">hypostasis of the interjection </span><span class="hps"></span><span class="">'thousand</span> <span class="hps">sat</span> <span class="hps">sa!</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">an exaggeration of </span><span class="hps"></span><span>"<i>sa</i></span><i> <span class="hps">sa!</span></i> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span></span> <span class="hps">"Sa</span> <span class="hps">sa"</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">used</span> <span class="hps">to incite</span><span class="hps"> dogs to chase prey </span><span class="hps">(probably from</span> French<span class="hps"></span> <i><span class="hps">ça</span></i> <span class="hps">''that"</span><span>)</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Thus</span><span class="">, one could</span> <span class="hps">translate</span> </span><i>Tausendsassa as</i><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">:</span> <span class="hps">"a thousand</span> <span class="hps">this and that</span><span class="">."</span></span></div>
<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div>
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