Please -- this listserv goes to about 380 people.  Can we have a moratorium
on Mr. Nisters.  This is getting out-of hand.  Let him quit if that is what
he wants.  I, like others, don't pay much attention to his posts.

Bill F.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Fisher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Websites, Art & Helmut & snacking food / AND MORE !!!!


> Sehr geherhter Herr Nisters: (et al)
>
> And that is about the extent of my German & Latin.
>
> I am sorry to see that all these 'conch-l's' are 'taking you to task'
> (teasing you) !!!
>
> I am glad to see that you are 'rolling with the punches' (another
> colloquialism)  ------ they mean 'gekra(e)nkt sein' ------ & perhaps have
> not even investigated the 'purity' of the word ----- it has many
> meanings --- as do do many words in English ---- that are stolen from
having
> so many 'Eltern' (Lateinisch, Franzosisch, Italianisch' --  USW) --- !!!!
>
> When it comes to 'pique' (if you are into opera, ---- as I am) ----
> investigate 'La Pique Dame" ------
>
> Weird (which ignores the 'English spelling rule' ('I' before 'E', except
> after 'C' --- etc.) & this is why English is so infuriating to a
> 'non-native' neophyte) ---- and even confounds the 'native born', usually
!!
>
> 'Weird' in my mind (most simply & in colloquial understanding) ---- means
> 'unexpectedly unusual' ---- or an unexpected situation
> /person/statement/reaction ETC.-----
>
> One could describe/explain ' (mad?) King Ludwig of Bavaria' as weird ----
> one could say the 'spelling rule' is weird (in its 'exception') ---- some
> would think the whorls 'reversing' on some species of otherwise identical
> shells, as being weird ----
>
> Try telling that to 'Linaeus' or 'Darwin' ----- AND are the 'Finches'
weird
> for this same reason?
>
> When I saw the spelling 'wierde' (sonic) ---- I immediately thought of
'auf
> Die weide' ----- reminding me of 'meadow'!!!
>
> Oxford (being English) --- must be ---- the 'ultimate' evaluator of the
two
> languages (nicht wahr?) (in that their roots are fairly common) creates an
> opportunity for me to 'tease', also !!!
>
> I am teasing you ---- ('pulling your leg')  -- and the only language that
> really 'confounds' people is Hungarisch &/or the language of the gypsies
> (Rhoemisch)!!!!
>
> 'bizarre' ---- veru(e)chkt' --- are potential meanings ----- 'bizzarre' is
> bizarre (closer to Franzosisch, for me) ----
> On the other hand 'veruechkt' --- is closer to crazy ---- in my mind, ----
> and in to-day's vernacular & my German experience, which is purely 20th
> century ---
>
> (my ancestors on my Mother's side are 16th century German
> (Kehl/Straatsbuergem) ---- but my Father was English ---- from a
coal-mining
> background !!!)
>
> I hope you may find this of interest/amusement ----
>
> Herzlichst --
>
> Ihr Craig Fisher
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