Re: [Cz-L] Driving school

The Schnurrbart is a purr- or hum beard, not a stringbeard. At least that
is the way it is written in German.
It has some tenths of varieties as can easily be seen on the net. Origin of
name? I would go for the cat similarity.
First the place of the hair formed (the literal name is Oberlippenbart) is
associated to the domesticated species that has it most pronounced (the
Cat) and then the nearness of the sound origin and the look of it are
associated by metonymy. That
is a standard process in most live languages.

Did the pupils of the Aron Pumnul gymnasium like the Schnurrb=E4rte of the
driving school teachers', posing vis a vis their place of learning, more
than their own teachers'? That is here the question!
[Berti Glaubach]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:28 PM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>wrote:

> Mimi..in Austria they all had massive mustaches..look at Franz Joseph!!
> Cornel
>
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> Taylor
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> In the good old days, when most men had mustaches,
> or as they were called in German: Schnurrbart (string beard).
> Maybe in Germany or Austria, men had thin mustaches,
> resembling a string. But as you can see in this photograph,
> Czernowitzers opted for more substantial mustaches.
> My paternal grandfather had an even more substantial mustache,
> curling upwards, covering his upper lip and extending
> to his cheeks.
> "Wenn schon denn schon"! (loose translation: if you do something,
> do it fully or extensively!)
>
> Mimi
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