Twelve Words for Ice (Greenland, Denmark expressions)

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:33 PM -0400 7/3/01, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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>BLOWING A PELLICAN--Danish weather expression like "raining cats and dogs."
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>EAGLE--good (Danish).
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>DOG--to fancy something, such as "he's a dog for soccer" (Danish).
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Maybe we should notify the Greeland branch of the "Animal-friendly
sayings" organization.
Perhaps they won't object to "eagle" meaning 'good'; it's certainly
less offensive than hitting an eagle (or, for that matter, a birdie)
in golfers' English.  (Henceforth, a birdie shall be known as an
unbogey and an eagle a double unbogey.)  The Greenlanders' "be a dog
for" is dubious, though, and the first of the above expressions must
*certainly* be suppressed.

larry