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http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/On the above data base, my great-grandmother's cause of death is given as "maemia" - I cannot find out what it means by Googling. A fellow genealogist's ancestor died of "paedotrophia" - and she cannot find out what that is, either. Is it possible that the British concentration camp authorities wrote down any medical-sounding words they could devise to disguise the fact that people were dying like flies of starvation and so on? Or are those really medical terms?
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Part of it may be the ligature æ being replaced by e. That said, I find nothing in onelook for memia, but pedatrophia does yield this.
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maemia
It might be a transcription error for anaemia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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pedatropia or marasmus: extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food... I'll say!
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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Thank you for the welcome. Where must I draw you a sheep? Why must I draw you a sheep?
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I think the signature is a quote from Winny the Pooh and something like a rethorical question.
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The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. May be rhetorical; some take it literally.
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Exactly, Peter. I responded to the question in a PM. Since the Pilot cannot draw very well, he draws a box, and tells the Prince that the sheep is in the box, which satisfies him.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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