Another non-metaphor

[Dan Goncharoff]

Ah, OK, it is basically the same stuff, but sand, to me, is dry and crusty
(because the liquid has evaporated). Whether wet or dry, I think it is
called sleep.

DanG


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > Are you talking about the stuff I would call 'sand'?
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> Very likely. It's mentioned in the German stuff from DE W:pedia, for which
> I lazily didn't bother to provide a cite, that "Sand" is among the German
> synonyms of "Augenbutter."
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> Another German synonym is _Matzel_, which is reminiscent of
> "mattel"?/"mattle"?, an ETX BE term used for the still-viscous predecessor
> of cat-butter that often oozes out of the corners of a person's eyes while
> he still awake.
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