Re: Megdevi Book (was Re: What is it we are saying in our languages?)

Sally Caves:
SC> I am unsure, too, if others have seen it, unless I put something really
SC> provocative in it, such as a link to a picture of myself nude and
SC> dancing dipsomaniacally on a table.

John Quijada:
JQ> Trust me, Sally, if you should act on your proposal to post the
JQ> terpsichorean photo you describe, I promise to lose all interest in any
JQ> thoughts of discussing the anti-telic....

And Rosta:
AR> Most of your messages to the list do appear to be reaching me. But
I seem to have missed
AR> the one you refer to here; I think I would have remembered it, had
I seen it. Please resend.

Heh!

AR> And then hopefully the picture can be translated into a David
Peterson kunstwerk, in which
AR>  his innate pictorial flair is now married to a newly heightened
consciousness of feminine
AR>  anatomy.

See, this is why I love the list.  I learn not only new languages, but
new words in my own language!  "Terpsichorean" I was already familiar
with, but dipso- was a new kind of -mania for me.  (As the parent of a
toddler, I had visions of a maniacal Dipsy the Teletubbie...)  Nor was
I familiar with the term "kunstwerk" - I'm insufficiently urbane, I
guess.  I was only able to find a translation of it as "work of art" -
is there a more specific connotation with that particular word choice?

(Also,  as an inurbane Anglophone, I must say that when the topic of
female anatomy and kunstwerk come up together - type carefully. :)

Finally, since this is my first post on this thread, to David:  HOLY
BLEEPING BLEEP!  That is awesome.   I would love to have anything half
that complete in one of my langs.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>