On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:48:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 8/1/2014 12:06 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: > >>For example, what would "sick" mean to a motorhead? > > > >You mean "motorhead" like in someone who likes cars or like in the > >the heavy metal band? :-P (Non-native speakers probably associate > >motorhead with the band and often don't know the original meaning) > > "motorhead" as in someone who is happy with his head under the hood of > a car working on the engine. (The band name is a reference to using > amphetamine.) > > "sick" in this case would be a term of high praise for someone's > custom hot rod.
And a "hot rod" in this context means a customized vehicle modified to have high performance, speed, etc., not a stick that has high temperature. :-D T -- Век живи - век учись. А дураком помрёшь.
