LL-L "Idiomatica" 2004.09.13 (03) [A/E]

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From: John Baskind <jbaskind at mac.com>
Subject: Idiomatica

"Langtand"  is a wonderfully descriptive word in Afrikaans (imagine a
dog gingerly taking a piece of unknown or suspicious food from it's
owner's fingers, chops raised to expose the canines). It's entirely
impossible to deliver the the same  flavour in English, as far as I
know.

Are there cognates in other Lowlands languages?

An example of this word in use below (from a recent issue of
litnet.co.za)

(Puriste, pasop! Anglisismes vorentoe...)

Appeltert
- Roedi Nolte

ek sit by die werk in die kantien en eet
  langtand alleen aan die droeërige
  mini appeltert wat ek met suursterk
  koffie verby die knop in my keel afsluk

en ek dink my terug in Oudtshoorn
  waar ek stowwerig kaalvoet al
  fietsryend by die agterdeur stop vir
  my ma se appeltert en soet tee

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