tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post667129826281456931..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Selective Lingusticszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-55100928602209714842015-07-28T08:21:15.955+02:002015-07-28T08:21:15.955+02:00Thank you so much for alerting me to his existence...Thank you so much for alerting me to his existencezmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-82923437469197718942015-07-28T00:56:02.473+02:002015-07-28T00:56:02.473+02:00The NYRB Classics series includes Lichtenberg'...The NYRB Classics series includes Lichtenberg's <i>The Waste Books</i>. It cost $14 US when I bought it, fits handily into a coat pocket, and can be read by fits and starts or at length.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-16950249280837415552015-07-26T22:49:02.354+02:002015-07-26T22:49:02.354+02:00The old rule of thumb with German f becoming Engli...The old rule of thumb with German f becoming English p seems to apply to Dutch as well so Laufen/lopen works. Lichtenberg - once again your secret teaching method sends me off to expand my knowledgezmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-68839714772108034452015-07-26T00:18:28.287+02:002015-07-26T00:18:28.287+02:00Poor Dutch. Samuel Johnson said that one would be ...Poor Dutch. Samuel Johnson said that one would be disgusted to travel to Rotterdam and find the inscription on a monument to Erasmus written in Dutch. Lichtenberg thought that the ass seemed like a horse translated into Dutch. (It is fair to say that Johnson was arguing in favor of Latin rather than English on monuments.)<br /><br />Lope, Dutch and English, I have always supposed to be a cognate of the German "laufen", which can mean either run or walk. It seems to me that it has pretty much dropped out of spoken and even written English, except as naming or describing a gait.<br />Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com