Someone recently asked me if Jameld has any informal expressions for death, such as to "kick the bucket", "buy the farm" or "snuff it". I had to reply that it...
... Try Monty Python's Flying Circus' Dead Parrot Sketch; it reveals a lot of English expressions about death and having died. In Dutch there are such as:...
Does anyone by chance have, or know of, a Proto-Germanic dictionary in a spreadsheet, comma-deliniated text file, or similar format? Or, roughly, something...
I don't know of one - but if you end up doing it yourself, I hope you'll consider being generous enough to share! ... From: "Angel" <dammerlicht@...> To:...
... Does anyone by chance have, or know of, a Proto-Germanic dictionary in a spreadsheet, comma-deliniated text file, or similar format? Or, roughly, something...
Hi! ... I am preparing one by parsing Köbler's dictionaries (in PDF) with Perl. Unfortunately, it is not trivial at all. But I want an SQL-based dictionary...
Henrik Theiling
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Oct 8, 2006 1:11 am
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... There are the XML and PDF versions of "Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit" at the Germanic Lexicon Project ...
... I guess the Text::Aspell Perl module could be (ab)used to verify if a given word exists in German. Not on my system, however... There is also the problem ...
There is an excel spreadsheet of PG roots by somebody named Torp on the Theudiskon Yahoo! group. I have just put it in the Germaniconlang files section....
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Oct 8, 2006 8:19 pm
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... Try Monty Python's Flying Circus' Dead Parrot Sketch; it reveals a lot of English expressions about death and having died. << I am, of course, aware of the...
Hi! ... E.g. German has the following colloquial ones (among others): - 'ins Gras beißen' 'to bite into the grass' - 'den Löffel abgeben' 'to give away...
Henrik Theiling
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Oct 11, 2006 10:50 am
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... _Gå/kila runt hörnet_ exists in Swedish too. As you IIRC know Norwegian I assume this expression is not known there, which kind of surprises me! My...
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Oct 11, 2006 1:33 pm
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I just uploaded the same converted to a tab-delimited text file, since not all have or like Excel. It should be noted that this file does *not* contain the...
... This one is found in Swedish too. Not in English? ... -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se "Maybe" is a strange word. When...
Back to English, I'm a big gangster film fan: "In the sea with concrete shoes" "taking a deep six holiday" ... any of these ... bucket")? ... 'nipple', not...
Yea, it lacks the evolved forms in Old English, Gothic etc. And the Proto Indo-European ancester forms. I still find it useful sometimes since my Shorter OED...
Hi! I just thought about the Dutch 'het hoekje omgaan' (lit. 'to go around the corner'). What's funny is that although this does not exist in German (to my...
Henrik Theiling
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Oct 12, 2006 12:57 am
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... E.g. German has the following colloquial ones (among others): - 'ins Gras beißen' 'to bite into the grass' - 'den Löffel abgeben' 'to give away the...
... <g> What's interesting is that some of these expressions are euphemisms for dying, and some are euphemisms for being dead. I guess this is a rich seam. ...
... death, ... reply ... I would've thought that Jameld would say something like "E mestave eü delet fruktkohk". Or something. ;-) Although I quite like the...
... I would've thought that Jameld would say something like "E mestave eü delet fruktkohk". Or something. ;-) << *hlak* (Translation for non-Jameld-speakers:...
... Apologies for the satellite delay... I wasn't aware of this one, and having checked with a Norwegian colleague it appears to be unknown in Norwegian. ... ...
Some light amusement and/or inspiration for you: I present an extract from "The Man Who Ate Bluebottles: And Other Great British Eccentrics" by Catherine...
You may well recall we discussed the subject of euphemisms for death recently. Someone suggested this would make an excellent project: collecting such...
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