MD3PAD 151-153

[Otto]

Could it be a mere typo?

The correct Dutch word would be "heren" with one "r" only (plural of 
"heer").

Otto

jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> How Germans? It's Cape Town in the mid-18th C. Why not Dutchmen?
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> best
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> On 08/03/2006:
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>>> v#44: Herren - plural of Herr, so therefore German men.
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>> "Men" in German is "Männer". "Herr" is more complicated. On the one 
>> hand, it is the common form of addressing men, as in, for example, 
>> "Herr Kafka". On the other hand, it is associated with "Herrschaft" - 
>> domination, mastery etc. Depending on the context, "Herr" can 
>> therefore mean "Mister" as well as "Master" (these English words 
>> being, of course, also related to each other).
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>> But why does Pynchon use "Herren" instead of "Mynheeren"? I suppose 
>> that "Herren", in the sense of "master" as in "master and slave" or 
>> "master and servant", is more familar in the English-speaking world 
>> than "Mynheeren". Cf. "Herrenmenschen", "Blitzkrieg", "Lebensraum"...
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