Cempaka Belanda: Dutch 'defriended' as far back as 1626

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"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, January 15, 2010

Dutch 'defriended' as far back as 1626

NRC International, 15 January 2010 12:19, by our news staff

Friends in the 17th century, depicted by Jan Steen

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and their ilk, have spawned a host of new jargon. Surprisingly, one of these terms was already in use in 17th century Holland.

“Defriending”, or ostracizing a former pal from one’s digital inner circle, might seem to be the pinnacle of linguistic modernity. When the act of defriending was first committed is a fact perhaps lost forever in the fog of history. But surely this historic moment did not take place in 17th century Holland?

Perhaps it did, Dutch writer Ed Schilders has found. Using the tried and true technique of lexicographical resarch (i.e. looking somehing up in the dictionary) he discovered the Dutch translation of the word (ontvriending) dates back to at least 1626. He found the term in de Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, an exhaustive 43-volume opus on the Dutch language which took more than a century to complete.

"My friends thou hast defriended"

Hidden on one of the Woordenboek’s 50,000-odd pages, Schilders found an entry written in 1892 describing the practice of ‘defriending’, which at the time meant “to take away one’s friends” or “to make into an enemy”. The entry quotes references dating from 1626 and 1658. One is a reference to the infamous courtesan of Lais, a woman so beautiful - and sexually available – that she drew pupils away from a famous philosopher, “defriending” him in the old-fashioned sense of the word. “Today you can defriend someone. In the past, you were defriended,” said Wouter van Wingerden, a linguistic consultant with the Society for the Dutch Language.

The other reference is found in Psalm 88:8, translated in the King James Bible as “Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me.” The Dutch version quoted in the Woordenboek might be close to 400 years old but it is definitely more concise. It reads ‘Mijn vrienden hebt ghy my ont-vrindt,’ which translates to “My friends thou hast defriended.”

The word fell into disuse after the 17th century, perhaps because the Netherlands had few friends left. By 1672, the young Dutch republic had found itself at war with France, England, and the dioceses of Cologne and Munster.

Word of the year

In 2009, “ontvrienden” was named Word of the Year in an annual election held by the Dutch publisher of dictionaries, Van Dale. The title is commonly reserved for new words. The winner of the 2008 election (“swaffelen”) describes a decidedly odd sexual act popularised by a Dutch student who catapulted to internet fame when a video of him appeared online. Without going into unnecessary detail, the video featured both the boy’s privates and the Taj Mahal. It does not yet appear in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal.

According to van Wingerden, the word is, to some extent, really new, since it had fallen into disuse for centuries and has only recently been reincorporated into the Dutch language as a translation from English.

For a term that describes such an unsociable act, “defriend” has proven surprisingly popular worldwide. In 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary also anointed the word “unfriend” Word of the Year, noting that the term had “both currency and potential longevity”. The American dictionary did note the word “friend” had been in use as a verb in 17th century English.

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