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Old 01-02-2008, 10:41 AM  
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Originally Posted by bm bradley View Post
my understanding of the post is that the word Käfighaltung is a noun identifying caged animals. in english we don't really do that.

for instance in some languages they have nouns for the various stages of fruit. for example: a peach is called one name when growing and another when ripe. we use modifiers. we would say ripe peach, instead of using a different noun.

we have prisoner and that's about it really. look to the slang dictionaries be my thoughts.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=prisoner
-bmb
thanks for your comments and the link to urbandictionary.com, which was new to me
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