The Dutch on Blue

Robert Borski · 13 Oct 1999, 01:04 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: "Robert Borski" <rborski at coredcs.com>
Subject: (whorl) The Dutch on Blue
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:04:35
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'Wijze,' in Dutch, means 'tune,' 'melody,' 'manner,' or perhaps most
significantly, 'mood' (meaning here the grammatical sense, not the
emotional--how, that is, a clause containing the verb in question [usually
inflected] is related syntactically to other clauses in the sentence.)=20

'Strik,' who also hails from Dorp, means 'knot.'=20

'Knotted syntax' may be a happy coincidence here, but I doubt it.

Robert Borski

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