Re: Reading: Die Schere II: "Er" + "Bucklicht"

[Guenter Rebing <Rebing@compuserve.com>]

"Er" capitalized is 18th cty German common usage, the form of address used
when a superior talks to an inferior. Frederick the Great, in many
anecdotes, uses this "Er": "Kerl, was faellt Ihm ein?"

"Bucklicht" ,too, was the current form in 18th cty German, today replaced
by "bucklig" (hunchbacked ), but still known through  the popular rhyme of
the "bucklicht Maennlein" taken up by Guenter Grass, among others. 

G. Rebing