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<DIV><TT>Fritz Goerling wrote:<BR>> Do you have other examples and
explanations from English<BR>> (all varieties) and other
languages?<BR><SPAN class=812284620-23072004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Mike
Maxwell replied:</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004> </SPAN><BR>I'm trying very hard
to promote the use of 'warm' to mean 'cool, neat, <BR>nifty'. But my
teen-age daughter tells me I'm not succeeding. (Of <BR>course, she
doesn't know what 'neat' or 'nifty' mean.)<SPAN class=812284620-23072004><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004>FG:</SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Are you saying that tongue-in-cheek?</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> Wouldn't "hot" stand a better chance than
"warm" in replacing "cool" in English?</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=812284620-23072004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> Works in German for: "ein heisser
Schlitten"</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>= a hot sportscar (a
nifty, cool, neat</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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class=812284620-23072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
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