Re: [tied] Can of worms :) [Re: ...]

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From: "George S t a n a" <gs001ns@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: [tied] Can of worms :) [Re: ...]


>
> >[Moeller] i dont have an english dictionary here:-(
>
> Jumpin' tootin' blazes! :) I myself posted Webster's URL for
> you more than once on another list: http://www.m-w.com/.
> (There you get even etymologies.)

[Moeller]I did not pay attention. hmm.. straneg feeling . I
see here a lot of post from you.. All for me. Well, what can I
say.. I am happy. You bring more attention to me as once , as
I was a kid, the Santa Claus. I will keep greatfull ythe link
now.
>
> >And
> >blindworm told me just a " vierme orb" or in German
BlindWurm.
> >A lizard is not a wurm. That was what I tought. Is a lizard
a
> >worm? :-))
>
> Te faci de bacanie...

[Moeller]in romanian none say to blindwoorm "vierme orb. " I
never tought it coudl be such a name and I am not ashamed to
say I dont know or I dont knew where indeed I have or I have
had not a clue.

>
> >And beside this the usual meaning is serpent or better said
viper.
>
> The meaning "viper" or "poisonous snake" is in Romanian
> chiefly in the _figurative sense_. The primordial definition
> is reserved for that legless kind of lizard.
>
> >I even didnt knew that "naparca" as small
> >boat is still in use. And you talk about worms :)))
>
> Oh, yeah? Then check this up in the German vocabulary: a
"Lindwurm"
> is a... dragon (at least as small as a... Tyrannosaurus Rex
or as a
> Jabberwocky. ;-).
>
> George
[Moeller]
??? you lost me here. what has right with left to do in this
case?the "small boat" with "lindwurm"?Is in german a lindwurm
a boat too?loooooooool
have a nice day:-)