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Composing an e-reply to my friend Kathi Braun in Trier, I wished her, in closing, "Alles Gute" (Best Wishes). The Dada-like image above depicts - except for the red markings I added - a long list of suggestions for the word misspelled as "Hute" [L1]. The 23 options proposed are very funny, if only to German eyes + ears. The intended word "Gute" dutyfully appears in line 2.
Description:
L1 = "Heute"/Today ; L3 = "Hut"/Hat ; L4 = "Hüte"/Hats ; L5 = "Jute"/"rough fiber made from the stems of a tropical Old World plant, used for making twine and rope or woven into sacking or matting" [Dictionary] ; L6 = "Hufe"/Hooves, "the horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse" [Dict.] ; L7 = 'Hsute"/1st+3rd pers. sg, past tense, of "hauen"/to hit ; L8 = "Huste"/1st pers sg, or imperative, of "husten"/to cough ; L9 = "Hupe"/car horn ; L10 = "Häute"/Skins ; L11 = "Rute"/Rod, "a stick used for caning or flogging." --
L12 = "Hume" is placed in a red cartouche, because it is special, & will receive some more attention in my closing remark.*** -- As I note in red for "Kute" in L18, "Hume" is "kein Wort"/"not a word." Neither are the following 6 of the remaining 12 words: "Nute" [L16], as well as "Huet, Hutt, Hutu, Hutre, and Hutei" in lines 19-23.
L13 = "Hupte"/1st+3rd pers. sg, past tense of "hupen"/to honk ; L14+15 = "Hutes"+"Huts"/Hat, Genitiv Sg. ; L17 = "Tute"/1st pers. sg. of "tuten"/to toot ; L24 = [zu] "Mute"/in phrases only, "state of mind" or "mood."
Next to this last line, there is a fraxtion of my name, [G]aby, just like an equally short fragment of [Di]vay can be seen to the left of "Hutu" in L21. -- Two whole words - "bin"/1st pers. Sg. of "to be," and "total" - are visible next to L18, "Nute."
*** Lastly, back to the red line 12 cartouxhe: to the left, the first two letters of my addressee's name Ka[thi] appear across from "Hume." According to Britannica.com, "Ka, in ancient Egyptian religion, [is] a principal aspect of the soul ... Written by a hieroglyph of uplifted arms, it seemed originally to have designated the protecting divine spirit of a person. The "Ka" survived the death of the body." [This sounds rather like a "Schutzengel"/Guardian Angel].As for "Hume" -- despite being a non-word, it is the name of the famous "Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, [who] rejected the possibility of certainty in knowledge" (Dict), David Hume, (1711–76).
Source: screen-shot of an "Outlook" eMail message to Kathi Braun, on Tu, 23oct2018
