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! :-) -- Cut here! -- New & improved sig! -- Best used before: 31.12.1999 -- >^^< -- Kurt B. Pruenner In case of fire: mailto:xxxx.xxxxxxxx@xx.xxx-xxxx.xx.xx Haendelstrasse 17 Website still under permanent deconstruction: . . . . . A-4020 Linz/AUSTRIA . . . . . . . http://www.hermes-gfx.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/ np: [Beta] Version - Frilage (I still haven't released anything, dammit! :) WARP Records http://www.warp-net.com/ BUZZ 1&2 http://www.buzz2.com/ Aphex Twin http://www.aphextwin.org/ Underworld http://www.dirty.org/ User Friendly http://www.userfriendly.org/ Segfault http://www.segfault.org/