On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57:32AM +0000, George Athas wrote: > Yes, you're right Petr. I realised the mistake as soon as I pressed send, and > knew someone would pick up on it. You get a bag of imaginary jelly beans for > the being the one. > > I'm not after euphemisms, as much as useful phrases that occur often enough > that students should be aware of them as stock phrases. In other words, the > phrase means a little more than the sum of its parts.
Ah, I see. Well, I think, that such idioms are so frequent (and this is the case not just in BH!) that it is the best practise if the students are taught to look up such idioms in a good lexicon. But it may be a good idea to start with the verbs of movement as they serve very often a basis for idioms. You can get your inspiration here: http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/repetitorium/idiot-tnua.pdf :) Petr Tomasek > > GEORGE ATHAS > Director of Postgraduate Studies, > Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) > Sydney, Australia > > > > From: Petr Tomasek <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:16:02 +0200 > To: George Athas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Idiomatic phrases > > Hm, isn't it rather "שָׁמַע בְּקוֹל XY"? > > (To Your, question, I know of no such a list. If You were interested in > euphemisms only, there is a book in German by Stefan Schorch) > > P.T. > -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
