19 Jun
2021
19 Jun
'21
12:59 a.m.
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20210618210047.5uogF%steffen(a)sdaoden.eu>:
|John Cowan wrote in
| <CAD2gp_So8VQE4ApVSAHmNgQOKNGbaBbaizovxweu2+DJnx-NKQ(a)mail.gmail.com>:
||On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:57 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> \
||wrote:
||> (Only to clarify that „bögge“ is not a German word to the best of my
||> knowledge. I was looking, as it sounded so »northern«,
||
||And so it is: it's Low Saxon, and also exists in the compound form
||"böggel-mann", plainly cognate to British English "bogeyman",
American
||English "boogeyman". Or borrowed one way or the other: there is so much
||borrowing and convergence in the Germanic languages around the North and
||Baltic Seas that if we did not know the older varieties of these languages
||we would never be able to work out just how they are related.
|
|This surely leads to nowhere without going into detail, and that
|is hard in respect to the dramatical losses that happened on
|archives etc., due to whatever reason. You may confuse personal
|opinion. That happens.
Hrhrm. Also it was shortly before the museum was torn into
pieces. Who knows what the journalist asked? Mary Brandel??
Ferry Cross The Mersey, so to say. When i try to interpret the
actual "sound" of that timeline[1], then "..Hopper is also
credited.." sounds like an addition that crossed one's mind, out
of the actual timeline topic, and so it *seems to me* as if the
collocutor could not be blamed. Says my gut.
[1]
https://books.google.de/books?id=Y-SUlMt64SoC&pg=PT70&lpg=PT70&…
A nice weekend i wish from Germany,
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)