[lit-ideas] Das Klittern
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:38:23 EST
M. Chase inquires:
>>Would some kind Germanic soul please tell me what
>>geschichtsklitternd means? I suspect it means roughly "tendentious",
S. Cameron replies:
>Perhaps: "has a history of bias" or maybe "historically biased"??
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I tried an OED search for 'klittern', and I retrieved the entry for English
'clitter'. How it got to mean _bias_ in German (if that's what it means)
escapes me.
JL
A Germanist soul.
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from the OED
'clitter':
A parallel form to CLATTER expressing a more attenuated action of the same
kind; cf. chitter, chatter, jibber, jabber, etc. Cf. also Ger. klittern, and
its relations to klattern.]
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