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From: E Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.10.06 (04) [E/German]

Ron,

It should be obvious; there are not two words for kussing or for blaar in
Afrikaans, so Afrikaans clearly does not fit your theory of 'mixed' vs
'unmixed' languages.

We also say skaapvleis, beesvleis, bokvleis and hoedervleis. There are no
similarities as with other 'mixed' languages, as with sheep>mutton or dead
calf > veal.

Elsie

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.10.06 (04) [E/German]

From Heather Rendall heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk

re yestereday's mail "Last night's dig walk at 11 p.m. and I could see my
breath in front of me. Chilly!"

Whoops! I do of course walk my DOG last thing at night , not go out for some
archaeological or more sinister purpose

Heather

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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.10.06 (04) [E/German]

Heather, yesterday you wrote:

...from a much drier Heather who is now shivering under unseasonal cold.
Last night's *dig* walk at 11 p.m. and I could see my breath in front of me.
Chilly!

What is a *'dig walk'*? Just a typo of 'dog-walk', or is it any very
regional or very new neologism (perhaps a kind of *'digestive walk with/for
a dog'*??)?

I had put it on the forum of dict.cc and earned just speculations *g*... Now
that poor people (native English speakers among them) want to know what it
means!

With friendly regards!

Jonny Meibohm


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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.10.06 (04) [E/German]

Beste Heather,

you wrote:

Which of course is where the "Muspilli" must come from too. As well as Harry
Potter's magic spells. And spelling (i.e. buchstabieren) sounds very like
the original definition given earlier today of giving information in the
right order.

Is spëllan still extant? And if so, in what versions? Does North Germanic
use erzählen or a cognate for story telling? Does NG use zählen for
counting?

A good time ago (about one year) we already have had a discussion about
_spellan_ etc., but I couldn't find it in the archive yet. But I remember
interesting results. As soon as I might succeed I'll inform you! We had
come to very interesting results, as far as I remember.

(BTW: Never before I'd heard about "Muspilli". Very interesting!)

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm
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