RE: [Cz-L] Schmied & Fontyn . from cornel fleming on 2011-01-11 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:20:41 +0000
To: 'Dov Glaubach' <berti_at_netvision.net.il>, 'Paul Heger' <pheger_at_gmail.com>
Reply-to: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>

Hi Berti...Buechse and Gewehr are musket and rifle in English...it is
semantics!! Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-7651873-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dov Glaubach
Sent: 11 January 2011 08:05
To: Paul Heger
Cc: Hedwig Brenner; HARDY BREIER; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Schmied & Fontyn .

It was Fischer's Fritz fischte frische Fische.

About the universality of the Schmidt und Fontyn shop, we used to tell
somebody who was in a hurry and excused himself for not being able to
execute some work, or stay because lack of time: "Kauf Dir die Zeit bei
Schmidt und Fontyn, die haben alles". (Go to Schmidt and Fontyn and buy
yourself
that time they got everything for sale). Also some were sent there to buy
themselves some brain or intelligence for proper use.

As to the German Buechse synonym to Gewehr, it is a gun, and a
Buechsenschmied is a
gunsmith according to Langenscheid. We have to give to the Germans and not
to the Jews
the priority of creating, using and naming arms. This is true at least for
the past. Now...about
the present I am not quite sure.

Berti.

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