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Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2004, 14:59
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> OTOH in Gothenburg dialect /gu:/ 'sympathetic, cozy, cuddly' has come > to mean 'stupid' or 'irritating', so anything is possible.
In informal Czech, "social" apparently means "anti-social". A Czech friend of mine confused be pretty effectively by carrying this usage over to German _sozial_. Andreas