Re: (idm) minimal linguistic play

From Kurt B. Pruenner
Sent Sat, May 29th 1999, 01:19

Irene McC wrote:
> On 27 May 99, Philip Sherburne wrote re: (idm) minimal linguistic play:
> > what's the german word for something like this?  aufgehaben?
> 
> Appealing?  something like "reizend", while appalling has a rather
> wide number of possibilities.  "Entsetzlich" comes to mind.
> Certainly none that I can think of that would be as punnishly similar
> as the two English words.

Hmmm... "anziehend" (_almost_ appealling) und "abstossend" (appalling)? :P

> Aufgehaben?  Go back to German 0.1 and don't pass go!  :-)

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