Weather = bad weather

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> Parallel to "language" for "bad language", e.g. in movie descriptions, as
> in "Rated R for language in some scenes".
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Or "substance" in "substance-free floors/dorms"

LH
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> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:44 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> German seems to have same same <weather> ~ <bad weather> thing. My
>> Cassell's has:  <Ein Wetter zieht sich zusammen> (A storm is gathering), as
>> well as mostly neutral cites. Within west Indo-European in general,
>> cognates' weather-meanings range from <neutral, windy, nasty>. pIE
>> *wedhrom.
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