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Topics of the day:
  1. First ever digest
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Date:    Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:29:51 +0000
From:    EvaMarie <emm0472@UNIX.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: First ever digest

Hello to everyone on the LINGO-L list! I appreciate all of you
joining my modest little list, and I hope that we all will have
an interesting and entertaining time discussing idioms and other
common expressions found in our various languages.

The first person ever to post to LINGO-L was Karen Severn, a doctoral
student in human resource development at Texas A&M University. Since
Karen's message was sent well before there were any members on the
list, I would like to repost it now and use it as a "jumping-off
point" for our discussion.

For those members who speak Mandarin or Russian, do you have similar
expressions or sayings for either of the idioms that Karen has
written about? If not, what are some expressions in your native
language about horses or racing horses (or racing other animals or
even human beings involved in competitive running)?

Please provide these idioms/expressions in your native language,
spelling the words out phonetically in English, and then give us a
translation in English with a short discussion of the meaning of your
phrase(s). Please keep in mind that this list is NOT about English
only. I would like for the members of the list to share the richness
of their language(s). Therefore, it should be as multicultural as
possible.

This will be the pattern that I hope we will follow in discussing
words/idioms/sayings/expressions. You are welcome, of course, to tell
the group about yourself:  school, work, home town, country, families,
personal interests, and so on. I think we will have a lot of fun
getting to know each other!

Thank you for being patient with me through all of these
explanations.

EvaMarie
Moderator/List Owner

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>Here's the first post:
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>Topics of the day:
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>  1. By a nose, or Got the nod
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>Date:    Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:23:05 +0000
>From:    Karen Severn <kls1836@UNIX.TAMU.EDU>
>Subject: By a nose, or Got the nod
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>These two idioms came from horse racing. The first, By a nose, means
>a close competition. the winner barely had their nose in front of the
>other horse's nose.
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>Got the nod--- this means approved or okayed to do something. It also
>comes from horse racing. When horses gallop, their heads bob or nod
>up and down. Depending on where a horse is in its stride, the head is
>up or down. when the head is down, it extends farther from the chest.
>thus a horse who gets the nod has its head extended.
>
>Karen W. Severn
>Doctoral Student, EHRD
>Texas A&M University
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>End of LINGO-L Digest - 5 Apr 1998 to 9 Apr 1998
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