Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 7, 2000, 22:26 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>I've thought all my life (at least, since I first came across the
>phrase - that makes about 15 years) that 'stocky' meant 'underweight',
>and now Irina tells me it means the opposite! Anyway, I went from
>seriously underweight to about right in five or six years...
Hehe, I was wondering about that, Boudewijn. I thought it quite odd that
adding 20 kg more to a "very, very stocky" frame was a good thing ;).
Also, seeing your picture, i thought that you might have had the term's
definition wrong.