On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:07 +0100 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> >
> Well, Karl, as one who is almost ignorant of baseball, I can agree
> with
> and confirm the truth of what you say here! If I heard this here in
> the
> UK, where baseball is hardly played, I would take it that he had
> either
> hit her (struck out at her) or deleted her from his list of
> prospects
> (struck her out). Having been told what the baseball term means, I
> supposed you mean that he had not succeeded with her, but I would
> not
> understand this.
>
> But I guess you wouldn't be much the wiser if I said that she must
> have
> bowled him a googly, although almost anyone in the UK, Australia and
> New
> Zealand would get the idea here.
>
> Well, this can teach us one thing about Hebrew, that we shouldn't
> assume
> a full understanding of Hebrew idioms from the partial information
> that
> we have. There may well be unique idioms in the Bible - and
> similarly
> unique senses of words like XSD.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
>http://www.qaya.org>
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Or that a word like RaG:LfYiM can be used as a euphemism for 'genitals.'