Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a turnabout variation of this called The Totalitarian Principle of Physics: "Everything that is not prohibited is compulsory." From Murray Gell-Mann, borrowed from "The Once and Future King", it has a literal meaning restricted to particle interactions, but a more whimsical (or philosophical, maybe the same thing) universal meaning in physics. --howard On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:21 AM, Didier Ludwig wrote: > Marc > > Even when written correctly , "Alles, was nicht Pflicht ist, ist > verboten" is a phrase I have never heard. If you meant "compulsory" > than "cumpolsury", this would mean "gesetzlich, vorgeschrieben, > obligatorisch" but also in all this combinations I do not know it as > a popular phrase. > > Hoppy alluded to "Alles, was nicht ausdr?cklich erlaubt ist, ist > verboten" (roughly translated in "Everything, which is not > explicitely allowed, is prohibited") which I can believe having > heard about our neighbour country (and also mine). > > "Mein Herr" is a hopelessly antiquated form of adress. > > Didier > > >> Nein, Meinherr. The proper phrase is, "alles was ist nichte >> pflichte ist verboten", everything which is not cumpolsury is >> forbidden. >> >> Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information