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Fw: Counting Descendants

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 30 aug 2007 08:26:31

Dear Hans,

Glad you see the point I was making. What apparently is obvious (and true) I
never have scholarly learned the English language, speaking or writing. I'd
like to see Hines do this with any language.

Of course it is glorious to pick on people for spelling errors, but what I
find hilarious is this mental picture of our intrepid sailor holding the
world's map upside down to find the East Coast of Europe.

In the meantime the Stuyvesant descendancy is growing.

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Volucris" <volucris@kpnplanet.nl>
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To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: Counting Descendants


DSH

I have digested this and made a file just to see what it brought together
and it is quite amazing (to me) who are to be found amongst the
descendants
of this family. Kirk Douglas, Montgomery Clift, [knip]

Being Dutch I often struggle for an appropriate English translation of
a word or a phrase.
My English/Dutch dictionary shows under 'amongst' the meanings:
onder, tussen, te midden van, met ons, evengoed als, behoren tot.

Ít is not strange to see that Leo van de Pas, being a born Dutchman
(and getting older ;-), occasionly slips back in a elder train of
thought. With the diverse meanings of 'amongst' I can see no fault
in his including Kirk Douglas amongst the descendants even though the
man is no actual blood descendant. Being married to one he is to be
found 'te midden van' (in de company of) etc. etc. I might have used
the phrase myselve.

Anyone who keeps insisting on a more correct descripton (or finding
faults in other one's) should firstly be beyond reproach himself. I
can't say that you are even near this category. Go change the world
and start with yourself, you're just nitpicking.

Hans Vogels


On 30 aug, 01:44, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:
Leo needs another lesson in humility....

I'm always happy to oblige, with my sturdy, well-seasoned 2 by 4....

Leo, intensely embarrassed at his gaffe, is trying to confuse the Gentle
Readers with bafflegab mixed with backing, filling and weasel wording --
in
order to make folks FORGET what he foolishly ACTUALLY WROTE, so he can run
away from it

He's also throwing out red herrings aplenty -- as a diversionary tactic.

Here it is again, the Original Leo Version he wants us to FORGET about, as
he walks the cat back and throws out the red herrings.

Posted Verbatim:

"A very kind person helped me with information about the Stuyvesant
family,
I have digested this and made a file just to see what it brought together
and it is quite amazing (to me) who are to be found amongst the
descendants
of this family. Kirk Douglas, Montgomery Clift, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert
Traill Spence Lowel IV, Adam von Trott zu Solz (involved in the conspiracy
against Hitler), Princess Maria Antonia de Braganca, Infanta of Portugal,
and many others." -- Leo van de Pas
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Leo is incorrect, Kirk Douglas is NOT a Stuyvesant Descendant -- although
his son Michael, born 1944, is.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

Illegitimatis Non Carborundum

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat opus





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Re: Counting Descendants

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 30 aug 2007 10:03:02

"Leo van de Pas" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:mailman.1518.1188458842.7287.gen-medieval@rootsweb.com...

What apparently is obvious (and true) I never have scholarly
learned the English language, speaking or writing.
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Hilarious!

A self-professed Genealogist, working in the English language, who doesn't
even understand what a DESCENDANT is....

Victoria, it just doesn't get any better than this.

Enjoy!

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat opus

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

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