LL-L "False friends" 2004.06.14 (01) [E]

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From: Mike <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: LL-L "False friends" 2004.06.12 (01) [D/E/LS/German]

Hi,
In our family "schlagen" is very commonly used in this sense.
"Er schlägt nach seinem Vater" COULD mean "he is hitting out at his father",
but more frequently it would be used in the sense, mostly negative, critical
"He displays the (bad) attitudes, (bad) manners of his father", but it can
also refer to phyical features, both positive and negative (and neutral).
Whether this comes from the LS substrate, I don´t know.
Mike Wintzer

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From: Peter Snepvangers <snepvangers at optushome.com.au>
Subject: False Friends

From: John Duckworth <jcduckworth2003 at yahoo.co.uk>
Greetings Lowlanders!
Considering all the hullaballoo about _sick_ versus _ill_, I decided to take
a look in some dictionaries.

Hello John, Ron et al...
The use of sick for vomit is very prevalent here in Australia and is also
commonly used to mean ill. One of the new usages for sick now is for sick
meaning "totally cool". Not in the usual sense meaning as hip, up to the
minute, exciting, new but in a tangental sense, a clever sense of cool. It
is used by the teenagers and ethnic (middle eastern, asian, lebanese)
Aussies originally but is gaining acceptance with all mainstream kids. It
has even been used on television here on our SBS tv station on a program
called Fat Pizza. Now when you see someone do a cool drawing or a great
stunt you would say" that was totally sick, man!!!"
I wonder if we are unique down under here with this usage?
Cheers
Peter Snepvangers
snepvangers at optushome.com.au

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