LL-L "Grammar" 2009.05.16 (04) [EN]

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From: Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2009.05.16 (01) [EN]

Ron, barley is an odd grain. In Dutch it starts its life as “gerst”. Used
mainly for animal fother and of course beer. Gerst can be flattened and then
you can eat it uncooked like you would flattened oats in Muesli. Its name
changes to “gort” when it is hulled in a “pelmolen”. In this process it
loses most of its bran, but there is a silver coat which remains on the
endosperm. The way to remove that is by steaming the grain and then
polishing it – or vise versa. At every step of refining the grain it loses
more of its nutritional value and it takes less time to cook it in porridges
and soups. So much for the culinary side of your conundrum.

In Dutch the verb “hullen” means to envelop, to cloak and to shroud.
“verhullen” means to mask ones feelings or to hide the truth and “onthullen”
means to disclose, or to remove a veil.

Is it maybe possible that in Dutch and German too we have no trouble using
“ont”- as particle in front of a root verb, ( as example, just to name a
few, ontkennen = to deny, ontlopen = get away from, ontginnen to prepare for
agriculture and ontbijten ( with a mental pirouette) = to breakfast; whereas
 at least in modern English that does not happen that often. But of course
there is untie = losmaken  (ontknoping is closer to disentanglement)

Enjoy the weather

Jacqueline

Seattle WA

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