On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:08:53PM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 08/01/2014 10:48 PM, Walter Bright 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. > > > > Great. Now imagine you are a motorhead in a hospital.
I have no trouble distinguishing between these two meanings of "sick" within the same conversation. You just have to resolve your overload sets correctly. :-D T -- Ruby is essentially Perl minus Wall.