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 L O W L A N D S - L - 12 February 2014 - Volume 01<br><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>

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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From: </font><span name="Theo Homan" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Theo Homan</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:theohoman@yahoo.com">theohoman@yahoo.com</a></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

Subject: </font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.03.08 (01) [NDS]</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

</font><div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">Hi,</div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">

<br></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">I would guess that this way of time-saying had its origin in the very beginning of clock-industries.</div>

<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">This kind of time-saying is/was also found outside of Germany [e.g. Icelandic].</div>

<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">We have to think a verb in the construction: 18.15 = 'a quart gone to seven'.</div>

<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">Is anybody interested in finding out what they used to say in Latin for this construction?</div>

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<a href="http://vr.gr/" target="_blank">vr.gr</a>.</div></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent">

<br></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent"><img class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" style="line-height: 5.994318008422852px;"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Theo Homan</span><br>

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