I see Knight Hotham belongs to the same google translate family as the Knight of Lorraine. *g*
Heee! Lol, yes, I missed that when cleaning up the google translate fic. Obviously, I go for speed on these things, not accuracy.
Lövenörn spelling it Guidickens, as one word, is a good reminder of what we didn't realize for the longest time, that it's not Guy Dickens, but Melchior Guy-Dickens.
The thing is, I *knew* it was spelled that way in contemporary German texts, since very early in salon, but I thought it was just a "Germans don't speak English" thing! Not that it was telling us something.
In other words, he didn't incriminate Danemark more than the absolute minimum wise and also, unlike Katte, didn't try to sell FW on Seckendorff & Grumbkow trying to make him into a Catholic to marry MT :)
Truly a Cicero! :'D
Spaen was accused of, and admitting to, chaperoning her and Fritz on some strolls
That's what I thought! Thank you for confirming I wasn't misremembering.
But her parents definitely weren't banished from either Potsdam or Berlin.
Okay, good. I would have liked to think I would remember such a thing.
Fritz getting half his hair torn out reminds me of Guy Dickens claiming he lives unshaven with a wild beard and long hair in Küstrin, i.e. it's not true at all but says something about the imagination of the respective envoy and belongs to the trope of the abused prisoner.
Yep, I was thinking of exactly this point of comparison.
Let's not forget: she gave birth to Ferdinand in the same year in late spring (May, I think?), and it's now early September.
Yes, I was thinking of that. And thank you for reminding me that she was in denial about the Amalie pregnancy.
also doesn't appear to have been one for physical exercise like riding or walking, unlike, say, her grandmother Sophie of Hannover.
Or even MT, who exercised and *still* got fat after all those pregnancies.
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Re: Løvenørn letters: Sep 10, 1730
Date: 2024-01-19 02:57 pm (UTC)Heee! Lol, yes, I missed that when cleaning up the google translate fic. Obviously, I go for speed on these things, not accuracy.
Lövenörn spelling it Guidickens, as one word, is a good reminder of what we didn't realize for the longest time, that it's not Guy Dickens, but Melchior Guy-Dickens.
The thing is, I *knew* it was spelled that way in contemporary German texts, since very early in salon, but I thought it was just a "Germans don't speak English" thing! Not that it was telling us something.
In other words, he didn't incriminate Danemark more than the absolute minimum wise and also, unlike Katte, didn't try to sell FW on Seckendorff & Grumbkow trying to make him into a Catholic to marry MT :)
Truly a Cicero! :'D
Spaen was accused of, and admitting to, chaperoning her and Fritz on some strolls
That's what I thought! Thank you for confirming I wasn't misremembering.
But her parents definitely weren't banished from either Potsdam or Berlin.
Okay, good. I would have liked to think I would remember such a thing.
Fritz getting half his hair torn out reminds me of Guy Dickens claiming he lives unshaven with a wild beard and long hair in Küstrin, i.e. it's not true at all but says something about the imagination of the respective envoy and belongs to the trope of the abused prisoner.
Yep, I was thinking of exactly this point of comparison.
Let's not forget: she gave birth to Ferdinand in the same year in late spring (May, I think?), and it's now early September.
Yes, I was thinking of that. And thank you for reminding me that she was in denial about the Amalie pregnancy.
also doesn't appear to have been one for physical exercise like riding or walking, unlike, say, her grandmother Sophie of Hannover.
Or even MT, who exercised and *still* got fat after all those pregnancies.