LL-L "Technica" 2010.02.08 (06) [EN]

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

Below is the message Joachim had meant me to send in HTML format.

I hope it's the right one.

Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

From: "Joachim Kreimer-de Fries" <soz-red at jpberlin.de>
To: LOWLANDS-L at listserv.linguistlist.org
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:49:49 +0100
Subject: Re: LL-L "Technica" 2010.02.07 (05) [EN]

Am 07.02.2010, 23:07 Uhr, schrieb Reinhard/Ron:

Thanks, Luc.

You wrote:

That's why I also advocate Joachim's suggestion.

Do you mean his suggestion to go back to plain text?

Thank you, Luc, for backing my suggestion!

Reinhard further:


If so, this would, of course, take us back years and would deprive us of
many useful text-formatting tools.

Dear Reinhard & all,

I did not propose to throw away our Office applications and to use only
plain text editors to tell the world our great thoughts and consolidated
findings!

It's only that I advocate the default use of plain text e-mails, especially
in Newsgroups and Mailing lists. (Exceptions can be allowed)

As it is, the LL-Listmails are the ugliest and worse readable of all mailing
lists and newsgroups I follow.

Can you tell me, Reinhard, which are the "many useful text-formatting tools"
which we were deprived of when our e-mails would be presented by the mailing
list as they are, be it plain text (which I would prefer) or (html-)
formatted?

After a rough overview on the last 30 LL-L mails I found only two "features"
where html formatting were needed:

1.

 From: Hannelore Hinz <HanneHinz at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2010.02.04 (03) [EN]:

*Pierd,* n. Spr. Perd, Pl. Pierd', Schreibung auch  Pir, als Aussprache.
Also Pferd: equus.

*Hingst, *m. Hengst, männliches unkastriertes Pferd.

*Roß, *n. Roß, Pferd.

*Zossen,* m. altes Pferd, abschätzig.


=> That is, the *bold fonts* at the beginning of the lines. And similar
other cases.

2.

From: R. F. Hahn
<sassisch at yahoo.com<http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com>
>

Subject: Etymology

Good question, Paul. Modern Low Saxon has both *slang* and *snaak* for
"snake", but in Old Saxon and Old Low Frankish I can only locate *slanga*.

I wonder if Low Saxon *snaaksch* and Dutch *snaaks* 'droll', 'weird', were
derived from *snake* > *snaak* 'snake' (thus *"snakish").

=> That is, the use of *italic fonts* as with the words *»snaak* for
"snake"«, »Low Saxon *snaaksch* and Dutch *snaaks* 'droll'«.

And similar other cases, also from Hanne Hinz.

That I put *italic fonts *so big, is a demonstration what uncivilized
formatting is possible with html-mails.

In my opinion, this is not really necessary. In plain text I would have
typed:

Pierd, n. Spr. Perd, Pl. Pierd', Schreibung auch  Pir, als Aussprache. Also
Pferd: equus.

Hingst,* *m. Hengst, männliches unkastriertes Pferd.

Roß, n. Roß, Pferd.

Zossen, m. altes Pferd, abschätzig.



and:

'snaak' for "snake"«, »Low Saxon 'snaaksch' and Dutch 'snaaks' = 'droll'« or
similar.



BTW, last point:



Better yet to avoid the lavish, though counterproductive work to present our
contributions in digest mode - with the result, that it is almost impossible
to read through a thread of answers and follow-ups to a certain matter. -
Admitted, I don't know the restrictions of linguistic.org, perhaps we are
all the user lowlands.list at gmail.com

the only sender address which appears in LL-L.



Met echt-westfœlsken »Goutgaun!«


joachim



PS: What about my proposal, to change - within the administrative settings
of the list - the "Reply-To: lowlands.list at gmail.com" mail header to the
real posting address "LOWLANDS-L at listserv.linguistlist.org", so that
klicking "reply" would put this correct address into the To:- field already
…
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