[lit-ideas] Re: Das Klittern
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:45:00 -0500
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> S. Cameron replies:
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>>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.
**This may help (only one of the German dictionaries in our house
contained it):
_Schöffler-Weis Deutsch-English Wörterbuch_, Weis, Erwin; Ernst Kleg
Verlag: Stuttgart, 1951. page 386
"bias(s)ed account of historical events"
**A German language dictionary of the OED caliber would be useful --
does anyone know of one??
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ (deferring to lingual maven Speranza)
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> JL
> A Germanist soul.
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> from the OED
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> 'clitter':
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> 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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