On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose'" == Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jose'> On Monday 20 March 2006 11:13, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >> I have to admit I have never seen this word. Do people really use
> >> it in normal discussion?
>
> Jose'> Don't you have this word (or similar) in French?
>
> Jose'> This comes from Latin, we have it in Portuguese.
>
> Jose'> Something like this old saying: "Scalded cat of cold water is
> Jose'> afraid"
>
> Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide.
>
> I never realized that échaudé actually meant that, probably because
> nobody uses it in literal sense (except maybe in some specialized
> fields).
"Scalded" in Swedish is "skållad", and here you do actually say something
like
"En skållad tomat smakar gott."
which is
"A scalded tomato tastes good."
So it's still being used.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
