#4248106 - 04/08/16 08:28 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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We had to warn them that we think a lot faster than we talk.
Hey, that is very much like when we East Frisians talk in "foreign regions". They always believe we were a bit slow of mind, or even dim - while we have our fun with them. My favourite East Frisian joke: A hectic German from Hessen (they talk double-speed!) comes towards an East Frisian fisherman and asks him, while his arms perform like propellers: "Tell me, good man - if I prodeed there, in this direction there, will there be the harbour then?" The East Frisian fisherman ansers very slow, with a dark voice: "Yo! But it will also be there, if you don't proceed."
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#4248368 - 04/09/16 04:18 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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JimAttrill
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Well mine is my real name. (Rather like Robert Wiggins). Hey Olham, maybe you can post some more German jokes
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#4248518 - 04/10/16 02:14 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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. I went with 'Louvert' as a tip of the hat to my now long-departed father... So, "Louvert" is a first name? Which origin is it? Olham, that is a question that I asked many times in my youth and the answer I received was always the same: my father's parents made it up. Now that may well be true, but as my paternal grandparents both came from Norway it seems strange that they would create a name that has such a distinctively French feel to it. My father always pronounced it with a hard 'T' at the end and the distinctive Scandinavian drawn out oooo sound, (like a cow going "Mooooo"). Nothing French-sounding about it when said like that. However, the romantic in me imagines that one of my father's parents was a student of French and they took his name from "L'ouvert" which translates as "The open" but whose meaning is more akin to "the truth". French philosopher Didier Franck describes it thusly: "L'ouvert constitue l'être même de l'étant. Par étant il faut donc entendre ce qui appartient à l'ouvert, y demeure ou y séjourne à découvert, cela même que les Grecs nommèrent "le hors-retrait" : le non-celé."Translation: "The open is the very essence of being. By being so you have to hear what belongs to the open, it remains there, staying discovered, which the Greeks named "the truth" : that which is not concealed."But again, that is just the romantic in me. .
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#4248523 - 04/10/16 02:41 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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In Swedish, the word lovart means windward, while lävart means leeward. The Swedish 'lo' is pronounced like the English 'loo'. Of course it may not in any way be connected to the name Louvert. In fact I have never heard a Swede or Norwegian go by that name, and you can't avoid encountering Scandinavian names where I live. Just a thought that came to my mind!
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#4248525 - 04/10/16 02:45 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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Raine I've been curious, is your handle pronounced 'Rain' or 'Rainee'? Just like "rain." All the Raines in the world seem to come from North Yorkshire or County Durham in NE England. Oh, and more than a couple got transported to Australia... There was a Raine's Battery of Confederate artillery in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. It was from Leesburg, VA.
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#4248527 - 04/10/16 02:50 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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. I always thought it was the combination of Lou Vert. Fullofit, you are not the first to have thought that. In Swedish, the word lovart means windward, while lävart means leeward. The Swedish 'lo' is pronounced like the English 'loo'. Of course it may not in any way be connected to the name Louvert. In fact I have never heard a Swede or Norwegian go by that name, and you can't avoid encountering Scandinavian names where I live. Just a thought that came to my mind! Yes Hasse, and a good thought too. In Norwegian they are lovart and luvart respectively, but I was told my father's name had nothing to do with either. Raine I've been curious, is your handle pronounced 'Rain' or 'Rainee'? Just like "rain." All the Raines in the world seem to come from North Yorkshire or County Durham in NE England... And I imagine that at certain times of the year all the rains in the world seem to come to North Yorkshire and County Durham in NE England. .
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#4248541 - 04/10/16 04:06 PM
Re: Slightly OT: Where did you get your Forum Handle from?
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Olham
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Couldn't find "Louvert" as a Norwegian first name either, but at least I found people who carry this first name: American people with first name Louvert I like the "romantic interpretation", Lou, and I firmly believe that true happyness can only be found, if one is open towards the thruth, and does not try to deny it, to fake it, or to violate people who tell it.
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Exodus
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