Re: Nur ein Wort gesucht. (de-eng)
Hi
Ich schlage vor:
Maintenance
Als Muttersprachler, wuerde ich darunter alles erwarten, das mit Wartung, Service, usw. verbunden ist.
Und jetzt zu dem Punkt green horses. Ich bin so frei, auf Englisch fortzufahren, weil wenn man sich mit englischen Liedertexten beschaeftigt, muss man doch eine Diskussion auf Englisch folgen koennen...und ausserdem muss ich bald den Rasen maehen und auf Englisch geht's schneller - das hier mit der Antwort, nicht das maehen.
I have never heard anything about green horses except in connection with the Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy arrives in the Emerald City, she sees, among the odd sights, a green horse. (Of course, everything in Emerald City is green.) When she asks about it, she is informed that it is "a horse of a different color" or maybe it is "the horse of a different color." The phrase "a horse of a different color" is of course an English idiom meaning something along the lines of "das ist was anders." But I wouldn't look for any meaning in the song there. In the Wizard of Oz, it is just a bad joke - unless a good Freudian can make something else out of it. Anyway, I looked up the text to the Bates' song "I paint my horse green" and I don't find a lot there that makes much sense to me at all. (Gee, do you think the song might have something to do with being under the influence of a drug or alcohol?)...but I expect that the conclusion that they think they should have painted the horse black instead of green would have some meaning in a punk, nihilistic, head slamming sort of way. Especially since they seem to have named themselves after the Bate's Motel of "Psycho" and have a nice song about Norman Bates, the matricidal, homicidal maniac. And also since each site that is concerned with the Bates and their music has chosen a black background. (By now it must be obvious that I have no idea who the hell the Bates are. I intend to keep it that way.) I suspect, in essence, that trying to analyze the song will get you less understanding about them than just jumping into the mosh pit and drawing blood. (I could make some sort of argument about the Wizard of Oz and childhood innocence and the black despair of reality, but I think I will go mow the lawn instead.) :-)
Jim
