Hello Urban,
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:26:07 +0100 GMT (04/11/2003, 01:26 +0700 GMT),
Urban wrote:
That's not too far from the swedish 'fladdermus' -- fluttermouse if you
translate it directly.
That's what I thought about the origin of the German word:
Fledermaus = Flattermaus.
But I'm not enough
Hello Thomas,
Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 7:43:52 AM, you wrote:
TF That's what I thought about the origin of the German word:
TF Fledermaus = Flattermaus. But I'm not enough of a linguist to know
TF about origins of words.
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Hello Roelof,
Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:49:25 AM, you wrote:
JH In german it's a mouse too, a Fledermaus, but I have no idea,
JH what the 'Fleder' stands for...
Stands for wing. In some parts of Holland 'vleder' is still being used
(though not much) for wing. And considering the common
Hello Roelof,
Monday, November 3, 2003, 6:49:25 AM, you wrote:
JH In german it's a mouse too, a Fledermaus, but I have no idea,
JH what the 'Fleder' stands for...
RO Stands for wing. In some parts of Holland 'vleder' is still being used
RO (though not much) for wing.
Some English dialects use
ON Monday, November 3, 2003, 8:34:28 AM, you wrote:
RJ Some English dialects use 'flittermouse' or 'flittlemouse' for bat.
Roy,
That doesn't surprise me. A while ago someone made a thesis that Dutch
was the mother of all languages.
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Best regards,
Gerard
Hello Roy,
Monday, November 3, 2003, 8:34:28 AM, you wrote:
Monday, November 3, 2003, 6:49:25 AM, you wrote:
JH In german it's a mouse too, a Fledermaus, but I have no idea,
JH what the 'Fleder' stands for...
RO Stands for wing. In some parts of Holland 'vleder' is still being used
RO
Monday, November 3, 2003, Roy Jackson wrote:
Some English dialects use 'flittermouse' or 'flittlemouse' for bat.
That's not too far from the swedish 'fladdermus' -- fluttermouse if you
translate it directly.
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Urban
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180
degrees
I see you're using La Chauve-Souris! (v2.01.3) as your mailer. Does
that mean you're using Linux?
MR Hee hee...no. It's The Bat! in French. :-)
rg The vulgar literal translation to English is The Bald Mouse!.
G Shouldn't that be The Flying Bold Mouse?
The accepted translation is The Bat! but
Hello rich,
Sunday, November 2, 2003, 9:42:25 PM, you wrote:
I see you're using La Chauve-Souris! (v2.01.3) as your mailer. Does
that mean you're using Linux?
MR Hee hee...no. It's The Bat! in French. :-)
rg The vulgar literal translation to English is The Bald Mouse!.
G Shouldn't that be
Hallo Jurgen,
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:28:18 +0100GMT (2-11-03, 22:28 +0100, where I
live), you wrote:
JH In german it's a mouse too, a Fledermaus, but I have no idea,
JH what the 'Fleder' stands for...
Stands for wing. In some parts of Holland 'vleder' is still being used
(though not much) for
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