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From: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Call for Proper Noun Idioms
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 23:27:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 23:27:18 1985
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In article <161@aero.ARPA> of Sun, 22-Dec-85 04:54:23 GMT
solomon@aero.UUCP (Steve Solomon) writes:
>
>I am interested in idiomatic expressions in English and other languages
>that uses proper nouns, from linguistic and cultural perspectives.
>The burning question is [...] what constitutes
>the notion of 'exotic' in different languages?

It's Greece too me (Det {a"r} Grekiska f{o"}r mig) is an idiomatic expressin in
Swedish, thou I don't think many Swedes consider Greece 'exotic'.

'in the darkest of Africa' (I det m{o"}rkaste (av) Afrika) is an other
exprision of exotishness. I don't know in what sense Africa was considered
dark. This expression does, for some reason, give me the notion of jungle.
(Somewhere close to Tarzan's home. :-)

>On a related note, what are the places thought of as neutrally exotic,

China and Kualalumpur.
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