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Re: DCKL translation problems: {Qut}

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: DCKL translation problems: {Qut}
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:34:24 +0100
• In-Reply-To: <018601c3ddf9$132cbc80$6500a8c0@c1199768b>

Am 18.01.2004 20:27:12, schrieb "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D." <[email protected]>:

>1. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
ungehobelt..
this reminds me of the word for "be rude" {Doch}
(which is also a problem to translate)

>2. Of or associated with the great masses of people
gemein, gewöhnlich, ordinär

>3. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
unanständig

>The third is how I've heard it used most, 
heard most where? ;-)

> and what I always assumed {Qut} meant.
While translating I've noticed that many words mean something completely different from what I 
always meant they mean!

Quvar.

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