:)

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It´s free William, but with a lot of art - good luck!

I would say

Reading the second part of the sentence I feel it should mean 'bad condition'.

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mmh :-( also doch daneben!

Slightly more grammatical/natural.

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Obviously singular/plural above, just to be thorough :)

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In view of zhdims answer above i would interpret \'liegen schlecht\' to refer to the location and \'schlecht liegen\' to refer to the condition but admit that this one IS a liiiiittle tricky.....

poor locale



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this is what I found:

Altrok Radio 015. for August 7, 2002. Burning Down The
(Poorly Situated) House by Your Diva, Robin Pastorio-Newman. Next ...
www.altrok.com/20020807.shtml

In other instances, however, the lands in question will, from the
City\'s perspective, be poorly situated for intended uses. The ...
www.city.nanaimo.bc.ca/b_clerk/citypos/citypos73.pdf

Or is it just that > some \'smarts\' are poorly constructed or poorly
situated? It depends entirely on how those \"smarts\" are applied. ...
www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2002Q4/msg00425.php

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this is what I found:

Altrok Radio 015. for August 7, 2002. Burning Down The
(Poorly Situated) House by Your Diva, Robin Pastorio-Newman. Next ...
www.altrok.com/20020807.shtml

In other instances, however, the lands in question will, from the
City\'s perspective, be poorly situated for intended uses. The ...
www.city.nanaimo.bc.ca/b_clerk/citypos/citypos73.pdf

Or is it just that > some \'smarts\' are poorly constructed or poorly
situated? It depends entirely on how those \"smarts\" are applied. ...
www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2002Q4/msg00425.php

Hi William,

I think you are right about the condition. I checked out a bunch of sites with the search "schlecht liegen" and other grammatical permutations thereof, and many of them indicate that the item in question is in poor condition, is no good, etc.

Brief 2002 des Dekans an die Ehemaligen - [ Translate this page ]
... Leute aufzunehmen wie diesmal. Ich sagte schon, dass unsere Fakultät im Vergleich nicht schlecht liegt. Wir geben Studierenden ...
www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/fakultaet/brief99.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

London Test und Preisvergleich - [ Translate this page ]
... Da der Kurs sehr schlecht liegt und die Engländer ja leider nicht den Euro haben, mussten wir allein fürs Frühstück, welches meist aus einem Bagel, 2 ...
www.ciao.com/London__Test_2319917 - 49k


And a couple of hits for "in poor condition", as if you needed those:

City of Ontario Council Meetings
... The site investigation concluded that the building is in poor condition and requires significant repairs related to the flooring, ceiling, HVAC, plumbing and ...
www.ci.ontario.ca.us/index.cfm/4298/6042 - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

"The kitchen has asbestos floor, painted hardboard walls and ...
... and a sliding wood access door. It is wired for light. The building is in poor condition. "The Water Pumphouse Building is located ...
www.geocities.com/~billev/wacs/document/usace10.html


"in bad shape" would be another variation.



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Hi everyone,

Wow! Quite a bit of interest on this one. I understand your misgivings on \"poor condition\", counterintuitive as it is. But if it means that the property is in a bad location, we are imputing to the author such an illogical mode of thought to the author that it stretches the mind, even to translators (as we all are) who have seen texts so poorly written that they make you want to cry. Does it make any sense at all for an appraiser to say, \"these two are in a bad location, but the others are all in good condition and should be kept.\"? No, none.

If anyone can come up with a single sentence from the Internet or type one in from a book that clearly indicates that \"schlecht liegen\" means to be in a poor location, then I will stand corrected.

I think \"schlecht liegen\" is being confused with the phrase \"schlecht gelegen sein\", which means to be in a poor location. \"Das Haus ist schlecht gelegen\" is what the author would have said.

NZZ Ratsberichterstattung - ... Markus Knauss (gp.) erklärt, das Schulhaus ist schlecht gelegen, und es hat im Umkreis wenig Kinder. Das Postulat ist abzulehnen. ...
www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kap01/gemeinderat_stzh/ nzz_ratsberichterstattung/051000.htm


So, I can only find refs in the Internet that show that it means poor condition, be no good, etc. Also - Der Sattel liegt schlecht, etwas liegt schlecht in der Hand, etc. These mean that they don\'t fit, that they are unwieldy. They don\'t mean that they are in a poor location.

I am fully aware that I will get a face full of disagrees, but before you do click that button that no one likes to see, please just show me one or two refs that show that it means \"to be in a bad location\", bearing in mind that \"ist schlecht gelegen\" is a different form than \"schlecht liegen\", as addressed above.

Ciao...