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EDNote: if I receive any further refinements on the high v. low German geographical distribution, I'll save them and post them together in a single "issue" sometime Friday. ~SB
JM: Heavens! (or should I exclaim: Hell?)... "Was oben ist muss drunten stehn", a beer-song I thought represented a Medieval conception of correspondence bt. Heaven and Earth. After Old Enricht's pose I began to think differently. Up and down, high or low, Hoch or Platt according to Juan, it remains hard to make heads or tails of all that enquiry: "Looking, for just one moment, of the wrong shape,/ the world lands catlike, on all/ its four feet at once, and now stands/ familiar both to the mind and the eye".
In KQKn (recomended abbreviation) there is a mention to "Moritz and Max", two aides that prop up the Inventor's careening automannekins ( gravity, you know).
Before turning into Katzenjammer kids,"Max und Moritz" were simply obnoxious little boys described and drawn by the German poet Wilhelm Busch.
Victor Fet, thanks for the very informed biologist's reply:
"odon(t-, to-)" means "tooth" in Greek (equivalent to Latinate "dens", "dent-") . Yes, of course! Dentists practice Odontology.
You added: "Order Odonata (Russ. strekozy, Engl. Damsel- and Dragonflies) are indeed named so because of their robust mandibles (jaws)...Whether Odon of PF has any "tooth" relevance I do not know, but "Odon" is Swedish (and surely in Zemblan as well) for Vaccinium uliginosum, the Northern Bilberry, Russ. Golubika."...
from which the French make their delicious "Liqueur de Cassis"often appreciated by the sweet two-toothed Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata) - or one of that crowd. So I take it that, contrary to what happened with Mrs.Kamelspinner, Odon's name ( one of Sylvia o'Donnell's sons) was not also an allusion to a Demoiselle airplane, nor did it arise from "a corruption of 'Odeon' ".
Besides, since the Coxcomb Prominent "is a free-living moth, it has nothing to do with a "moth" which could be eating Dreyer's camel-wool coat."(But why did VN go into such detail about Dreyer's coat?) - in short, you advise me not to stretch VN's words...
I hope SB will allow me once again to tell a face-saving joke, inspired by two Schultze's characters and a butterfly:
Lucy van der Pelt was teaching her precocious brother everything about insect migration. She showed him a yellow spot in the distance and explained that these yellow butterflies migrated all the way up from South America.When they came closer they saw it was actually a crisp potato chip lying on the ground.
Lucy then added: "I wonder how that potato chip managed to fly all the way over from South America."
( I know, I know... Odon isn't a potato chip either)
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JM: Heavens! (or should I exclaim: Hell?)... "Was oben ist muss drunten stehn", a beer-song I thought represented a Medieval conception of correspondence bt. Heaven and Earth. After Old Enricht's pose I began to think differently. Up and down, high or low, Hoch or Platt according to Juan, it remains hard to make heads or tails of all that enquiry: "Looking, for just one moment, of the wrong shape,/ the world lands catlike, on all/ its four feet at once, and now stands/ familiar both to the mind and the eye".
In KQKn (recomended abbreviation) there is a mention to "Moritz and Max", two aides that prop up the Inventor's careening automannekins ( gravity, you know).
Before turning into Katzenjammer kids,"Max und Moritz" were simply obnoxious little boys described and drawn by the German poet Wilhelm Busch.
Victor Fet, thanks for the very informed biologist's reply:
"odon(t-, to-)" means "tooth" in Greek (equivalent to Latinate "dens", "dent-") . Yes, of course! Dentists practice Odontology.
You added: "Order Odonata (Russ. strekozy, Engl. Damsel- and Dragonflies) are indeed named so because of their robust mandibles (jaws)...Whether Odon of PF has any "tooth" relevance I do not know, but "Odon" is Swedish (and surely in Zemblan as well) for Vaccinium uliginosum, the Northern Bilberry, Russ. Golubika."...
from which the French make their delicious "Liqueur de Cassis"often appreciated by the sweet two-toothed Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata) - or one of that crowd. So I take it that, contrary to what happened with Mrs.Kamelspinner, Odon's name ( one of Sylvia o'Donnell's sons) was not also an allusion to a Demoiselle airplane, nor did it arise from "a corruption of 'Odeon' ".
Besides, since the Coxcomb Prominent "is a free-living moth, it has nothing to do with a "moth" which could be eating Dreyer's camel-wool coat."(But why did VN go into such detail about Dreyer's coat?) - in short, you advise me not to stretch VN's words...
I hope SB will allow me once again to tell a face-saving joke, inspired by two Schultze's characters and a butterfly:
Lucy van der Pelt was teaching her precocious brother everything about insect migration. She showed him a yellow spot in the distance and explained that these yellow butterflies migrated all the way up from South America.When they came closer they saw it was actually a crisp potato chip lying on the ground.
Lucy then added: "I wonder how that potato chip managed to fly all the way over from South America."
( I know, I know... Odon isn't a potato chip either)
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