*** Quoting Danny Ceppa from a message to Bo Simonsen ***

 BS>> Welcome home Carol :-) Curtin is something you have on your windows
 BS>> right? 
DC>  
 DC> Hence the meaning in the US.  

 BS> But not in world-wide english?

DC> That I can't say.  Curtin should be.  And so should Iron.  

DC> But, I'm not sure how extant "Iron Curtin" is used.    


Well, a curtin is an item that blocks one's view in and out of a window. 
To ¨make it 'iron' means it's unbeatable.  It's an americanism possibly to
refer to ¨'iron curtin' for the old border by combining those two concepts
together.  It ¨is not one that I think a person new to 'english' would
catch the connotations ¨of.

If in english one says there is a curtin between 2 people, it would mean
that ¨they have an obstruction between them.  If that obstruction is made
of iron, it ¨would mean they couldnt easily get around it.
                                       xxcarol

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