Re: Word Order in typology

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> writes:
> >...
> > However, you can also say "ich habe kalt/heiss" (I have cold/hot), and to
> > me, this seems even a little bit more usual than "mir ist heiss/kalt" (to-
> > me is hot/cold), which might be but a regional preference, I don't know.
> >...
>
> That's quite stricty southern German dialect.  I did not know this until I
> read Max Frisch at school.  When I first read that sentence, I could not
> parse it, actually. :-)
Around Aachen, people seemed mostly to say _es ist mir kalt_, FWIW.

In Vienna, _ich bin warm_ apparently means "I'm gay". Never dared try it
anywhere else. I suppose that _ich bin kalt_ meaning "I'm straight" would be
too much to hope for!

                                                              Andreas