LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.12.11 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 11 December 2006 * Volume 01
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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'

Beste Ron,

you wrote:

> My mother, who was quite superstitious, often exclaimed "Beschrei das
> nicht!"

Your mother must have been the Eastern member of your family! The expression
is very common for me because my grandma from East Prussia always liked to
use it. I've never heard it elsewhere since her dead in the seventies...

BTW: she also was very superstitious, and I find the same still today with
my relatives from the Lunenburg-area.
Very different here, in the marshlands. People here always had to calculate
the rules of the sea, e.g. the tides, the height of spring tide, with and
without the wind coming from a certain direction etc. They always knew: if
you don't build the dikes highly enough no ghost or God would save you from
being drowned! Additional the open artificial landscape doesn't give much
chances for 'trolls' and other mysterious creatures to hide themselves..

For the same reasons people here never have been very religious; their fight
against all types of constrained christianity, always hand in hand with
nobility and authority endured till the 19th century and still results in a
distinctive free thinking.

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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