On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:04:38 +0100, Markus Maurer wrote: >I like the spider web and the caterpillar and the term "Scheepsjongens" :-),
Thanks Markus! >that sounds much more funny than the german word "Schiffsjunge". >"Scheps" meens "leaning" in Swiss german dialect. Hmm, well in Dutch 'Scheeps' simple means 'Schiffs' :-) >Swiss Outremer and Swiss Atlanique called that "Deckhand" = first rank of a >seaman or "Messboy" = first rank of a (chief)steward. Yeah, well, the 'Scheepsjongen' was about the lowest rank on those sailing ships, usualy young kids that had ran off from home ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
