31 Mar 06 10:43, Vladimir Donskoy wrote to Roy Witt:

 VD> Hi Roy!

 VD> Thursday March 30 2006, Roy Witt wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>>> And I too sometimes am at a loss to understand which word it is
 VD>>> necessary to use in concrete case.

 RW>> I've noticed that Russians use the word concrete when they are
 RW>> actually saying something else. Concrete as a noun is what they use
 RW>> to make highways, side-walks or house slabs, aka cement. Concrete as
 RW>> a verb implys to form into a solid mass or to make something real.
 RW>> I haven't figured out what it is that they're using the word for,
 RW>> yet.

 VD> Concrete - "specifically, particularly" (English).
 VD> In Deutsch - konkret, in Spanish - concretamente, in Italiano -
 VD> concreto, forte, potente, in France - d'une maniere concrete .

 VD> In my dictionary (paper) this word is available, and as one of values
 VD> uses this most.

I think the French translation would cover what you mean when you use the
word. A solidly excessive or unreasonably so, enthusiasm.

 VD> The illustration to my above-stated words has turned out just.


Roy
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