"Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > A few years ago, I told a friend about your compositions for lute, and > > how you used the pseudonym "Sautscheck". He was much amused. He is a > > retired lecturer in German, and so is familiar with the German language. > > He said that "Sautscheck" has certain pejorative connotations, but I > I am unaware of that. There are a dozen S's in the German notebook.
No such connotations known in German. Perhaps he heard a Denglish combination of G. Sau (sow) + E. check. Yet to German ears, there's no connotation to the name Sautschek at all. All that you can hear is that it probably stems from Bohemia or Poland (-ek), and that is by no means pejorative. -- Best, Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html