LL-L "Riddle" 2005.02.05 (04) [E/LS]

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From:  Arend Victorie <victorie.a at home.nl>
Subject: Riddle


Moi Reinhard,



’t Volgende, Klaus Groth is de 24 Oosternmaond geboren. Dat is bi’j oonz
paosen.



’t Raodsel giet aover een haane.

Dan heb ik ’t volgende riempie



“Haantie op ’n stökkie,

’n gaatien deur zien rökkien.

Een stokkie van zien linker poot,

now is ’t hiele haantie dood.



Een gezegend Paosen.



Arend Victorie


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From:  Henry Pijffers <henry.pijffers at saxnot.com>
Subject: LL-L "Riddle" 2005.02.05 (01) [D/E/LS/S/German/Chinese]

Ron schreev:
>
> I'm sending you wishes!  For what?
 >
Carnival?

Henry

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From:  Henry Pijffers <henry.pijffers at saxnot.com>
Subject: LL-L "Riddle" 2005.02.05 (01) [D/E/LS/S/German/Chinese]

Ron schreev:
>
> I'm sending you wishes!  For what?
 >
If it's for the Chinese Newyear (year of the rooster), then you're one
week early I believe.

Henry

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From:  R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Riddle

Henry (above):

> If it's for the Chinese Newyear (year of the rooster), then you're one
> week early I believe.

Not quite -- more like four days, or three days for our friends in Eastern
Asia and Oceania.

But yes ... bingo!  You got it, Henry (and the subject line should have been
"Holidays").  I usually send out those felicitations a few days early
because these holidays (also known as 春節 [æ˜¥è ‚] "Spring Festival") cause
Chinese people (of which we have a fair few on this list) to travel great
distances, oftentimes internationally, ideally to congregate with living and
deceased relatives in their ancestral places.

The holidays mark the beginning of your anniversary year if you were born in
a year of the "rooster" (or the "chicken" generally, 雞 [鸡]), namely any of
the following:

1909, 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993

And these are your supposed personal characteristics:

You are a deep thinker, are capable and talented, and your emotions and
fortunes swing between very high and very low. You like to keep busy, are
single-minded and devoted, oftentimes beyond your capabilities, and you are
deeply disappointed if you fail. You may be a bit eccentric, enjoy showing
off, tend to have rather difficult relationships with others, and are likely
to be a bit of a gossip, but you're skilled in calming the waters and give
the impression of being smooth, of having excellent social skills. So folks
think you're interesting, even fascinating. And you do enjoy being the
center of attention, though you're also too outspoken for some folks' taste.
You always think you are right, and you usually are! You are likely to be a
loner at heart, and, though you give the outward impression of being
adventurous and the life of the party, you are really pretty timid and shy,
yet you can be very brave when sufficiently provoked.

So there!

And among your fellow-roosters are people like Catherine the Great, Rudyard
Kipling and Peter Ustinov.

Oh, and yes! Carnival is upon us, Mardi Gras, too, being in four days from
now.  Best wishes for that to those of you who celebrate it!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

P.S.: Arend above: "’t Raodsel giet aover een haane."  Hmm ... very
interesting to see the _-e_ in the masculine noun (for "rooster")!  This
seems to indicate extreme conservatism in your Twente Low Saxon dialect,
namely retention of a reflex of Old Saxon _-o_.  It's _haan_ in most sister
dialects.

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