From simon@alphabeck.co.uk Thu Sep 03 14:46:45 2009
Subject:Re: German!!! Now SKIRT (was: Re: New Leslie Clone!)

I'm not sure how non-English-speaking Germans perceive the word Rock (meaning rock music) and whether they think it strange that a genre of music is called "skirt". Conversely, do many English-speaking Germans think that "rock music" refers to stone rather than "rocking" (as a reference to sex)?

It is interesting that the African-American phrase "rock and roll" referring to sex dates back nearly a century - a blues recording from the 1920s is entitled "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)", and there are several other examples from that era.

Simon

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From: goffmac747@aol.com
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: German!!! Now SKIRT (was: Re: [CWSG] Re: New Leslie Clone!)


Hehehe, would this have anything to do with the word "rock and roll" being originally coined by black-American artists to mean a euphemism for the sex act? Is this what "skirt" means in German as applied to rock music?

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Beck
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 6:33 pm
Subject: German!!! (was: Re: [CWSG] Re: New Leslie Clone!)

A lot of mischief has been caused over the years by the fact that the

original meaning of the German word "Rock" is "skirt"; the identically

spelled English word meaning "rock music" has been adopted into everyday

German,

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