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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 30 September 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Idiomatica<br><br>Oops! Sorry! I got Sandy's message wrong.<br><br>
Reinhard/Ron<br><br>----------<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 96); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2007.09.30 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">
> From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Idiomatica<br>><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span class="q">> Back to English ... Another idiomatic difference in American and<br>> non-American English is that "mad" now means "angry" in the former and<br>> mostly still original "insane" in the latter. Obviously, this can
<br>> lead to between speakers of these varieties misunderstanding each<br>> other.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">This might be an influence of Scots on American English, because in
<br>Scots, "mad" pretty much always means "angry".<br><br>In Scots there are various circumlocutions for describing the mentally<br>ill (in the old-fashioned rather indiscriminate sense), such as "no
<br>wyce" (not wise), "daft in the heid", "no juist richt (in the heid)".<br><br>I can't seem to think how we'd say "to go potty" in Scots. The Scots<br>expression "he gaed aff his heid" means "he lost his temper", while
<br>someone who's "aff his heid" is doing something crazy but isn't<br>necessarily crazy himself - he might just be making an error of<br>judgement like borrowing more than he can afford to go on holiday or
<br>something.<br><br>It does seem hard to separate mental illness and anger in Scots<br>vocabulary and idiom (allowing some out-of-date and politically<br>incorrect terms here):<br><br>Mentally Ill "He Became Angry"
<br>------------ ---------------<br>mental He went mental.<br>daft He went daft.<br>crazy He went crazy.<br>aff his heid He went aff his heid.<br><br>Possibly this tends to make it difficult to say something like "he went
<br>potty" in Scots because suddenly turning into a lunatic is taken to<br>imply that it's an otherwise sane person acting like a lunatic out of<br>anger, rather than accepting the idea that a sane person can actually
<br>turn into a lunatic?<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/
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