Re: quoth and Quatsch?
"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:55:40 -0600
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My apologies for burdening the list further with this, but two corrections seem to be necessary. > On Mar 12, 2017, at 2:37 PM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <[email protected]> wrote: > > … The DWB > offers four senses for 'Quatsch' as a noun (plus one as an > interjection and one as an adjective): In the spirit of informative citation, I should have said that this article in volume 13 is (as far as I can tell) by Matthias Lexer. > ... > The links to dialect dictionaries make clear that the link of Quatsch > with mud is a strong as its link with nonsense (I mean, all the cross > references I've followed end up in articles that have both an analog > of sense b and an analog of sense c, no occurrences of c without > b, nor vice versa), and suggest a relation to questchen. For “questchen” read “quetschen”. I hate autocorrect when it does things like that. ******************************************** C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC [email protected] http://www.blackmesatech.com ********************************************