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[Ltru] Re: Yinglish



John Cowan wrote:
 
>>| So get off your tochus and write a letter to Joan Spanne [...]
>>| kvetching about it.
 
> So get off your buttocks (same implication as in "Sitzfleisch")
> and write a letter to J.S. complaining about it.

Thanks, for that part I could guess it (de quetschen to en press).
 
> The point is that these examples are plain English with unusual
> vocabulary, not really different from dense slang or the technical
> talk of pilots, doctors, or computer programmers.

Assuming that it does not yet qualify for a 639-9 code element it
could still qualify for a 4646 variant.  With a variant it's easy
to find it as "some variant of English".

Frank



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