Word: reworking
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Foreign languages do not simply acquire American terms, of course, but adapt and rework them in a sort of hybridization variously known as Franglais, Spanglish or Japlish. The Germans, who have traditionally enjoyed concocting exotic combinations like Satisfaktionsfahigkei t (the state of being socially eligible to fight a duel), now add English to German as though creating a polyglot strudel. Powerstimmung, for example, means a great mood, which can make a German ganz high or even ausgeflippt...
Noama S. Potok '87 agreed, "I found it very helpful to hear conversation from Kelly McGillis and the other actors participating." However, the Quincy House resident added that she would have liked to have a chance to rework scenes...
...just filmed a TV commercial for Diet Pepsi. Reported fee: $500,000. Would all that loot seem like a crass cash-in to the electorate when Ferraro runs for the Senate in New York next year? She was not saying. But if she loses, she just has to rework one of her jokes: when her mother asked if Ferraro would really be elected Vice President, "I told her 'Mom, is the Pope Italian...
...problem, officials say, is that the kind of renovations needed to bring Cabot and North Houses into the modern era are more extensive than those required at the River. More than just refurbishing the structures, the planned Quad renovations would rework the physical interiors of the old Radcliffe dorms...
...shortcoming in giving poses a direct threat to the Faculty's budget and as the Campaign started to lose steam this year the Faculty had to rework its budget...