Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

From: tgpedersen
Message: 63230
Date: 2009-02-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Judge for yourself.
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnskURpwASk
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMZkffx68Gs
> > > >
> > >
> > > The first one "Stupid Sick Mad Video" cracked me up, I thought
> > > it was hilarious, while the second "Insane" was so-so
> > > (evocative music though). But it's the same girl, Mirren the
> > > fun-loving and sometimes funny half Dutch half Scottish girl,
> > > i.e. not a typical Dutch person.
> >
> > First, I think I'll take exception to the term 'fun-loving',
> > which in the Christianity-based Anglophonic culture means
> > something like 'outside community protection', second (and this
> > is related to the first) if there is a double bottom in 'fun' so
> > that what you present is the unacceptable truth under the truce
> > of Narrenfreiheit, if you call it 'fun', you are missing the
> > point I was trying to make.

>
> I actually meant "fun-loving" as a good thing, someone who would be
> enjoyable to be around. I have no religion in my upbringing so
> unless I say so nothing I say is meant to have a religious
> connotation. I don't think Christianity has as much weight as it
> once did in Canada.
>
> I thought you had earlier made the point that Mirren and Joan were
> not typically Dutch, they had some Scottish, and that was why they
> were so funny. So I thought I was basically reiterating the point
> you had made, and therefore Mirren was not the best choice to
> determine whether the Dutch are funny, since you had pointed out
> that her humor stems from her special situation within the
> Netherlands.
>

Nah, I was just over-reacting because I felt you were deflecting the
point I was trying to make: that's a real knife, and that's real
aggression under the cover of Narrenfreiheit. The point was that this
type of strange reactions is the last thing that disappears after the
language, the culture and the last substrate loans have gone: you see
that and you know something old ethnic is going on under the surface.


Torsten