I doubt that anyone will be able to find out what people who are dead were _thinking_. As for Quantz, he wrote gut and schlecht. In modern German schlecht means bad, but in Quantz's days, the word meant simple.
Mathias > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im > Auftrag von Herbert Ward > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. März 2011 04:31 > An: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: "good bad" instead of "strong weak" > > Thanks for the info. But did our historical forebears think of these words "good" > and "bad" in the context of morality or religion? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
