alligatored

[antares]

Roosevelt is a Dutch name too.

It means field of roses.

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

where music is..........

> From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:53:31 -0500
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: alligatored
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: antares <antares@EURONET.NL>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 9:04 AM
> Subject: alligatored
> 
> 
> | > Say does "moody" really mean "out of tune" in Dutch?  Or was
> someone
> | > pulling my leg?
> | > ---wondering ric
> |
> | Zey vur puhlink yor lekk, mein Freund!
> 
> They are pulling your leg, my friend   ??    Say Dutch is easy....
> |
> | It is a misinterpretation of the word stemming (in German :
> Stimmung),
> | because (and this is silly about the Dutch language) we have a
> double
> | meaning for the word 'stemming'.
> | one is mood, and the other means tuning.
> |
> | Now I am not a learned person, anybody can tell that immediately
> except my
> | best paying customers (; .....but according to me all this fuss
> about
> | stemming and mood etc has (possibly) to do with the word stem which
> means
> | voice.
> | A literal translation of voicing would be 'stemmen'.. to give it a
> voice, a
> | stem.
> | On the other hand, if I would say in English : I am in an unpleasant
> mood,
> | the Dutch translation could be "Ik ben ontstemd" dis-voiced..without
> a
> | voice.
> | Stemmen also means : to vote.. to bring out your 'voice'
> | Lastly, there is "stemmingmakerij" : the making of mood
> |
> | Mood is stemming, but not the 'Stimmung'
> | Out if tune in Dutch could be :
> |
> | Vals (false)
> | Ontstemd (with a double meaning)
> |
> | innit fun?
> |
> |
> | Antares,
> |
> 
> For some reason I thought there was a word in Dutch like "mood" or
> moody" that meant out of tune.   I began to wonder if my English
> origins then were actually Dutch.  Could "Moody" have come from the
> Netherlands?   After all in a near by community settled by many Dutch
> in 1900 there are names with oo like Boom, Cool
> Degroot, Tooley, Vanderboom, etc. (no Roosevelts though).   There was
> much crossing the Channel of the English and Dutch.   The Moody family
> has been on this side of the "pond" since 1768 with a grant from Geo
> III so if there is a Dutch connection it is lost in the mists of
> e.    ---ric
> 
> 
>