[Pyro7480]

Thanks! When one reads in English, you sometimes forget that sometimes things are translated. But I also like eastsider's explanation in post #16.

[wideawake]

Eastsider's explanation is excellent. It's just that something which sounds completely unexceptionable in a foreign tongue can often sound "off" or off-putting when more or less literally translated.

I remember reading a story in German class in which someone went into a Fleischerei (literally "fleshery") - which I assumed was a house of ill repute - and learned that it was German for a butcher shop.