Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens'
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:00:29 -0500

At 12:45 PM 1/30/2001 -0800, Paul Chefurka wrote:
>On the topic of languages evolving, a friend just gave me this wonderful
example:
>"Seo sprac na gehweorfe? nawiht."
>
>It's in English, believe it or not.  the translation to modern English reads:
>"The language doesn't change nohow."
>

Not quite.  A better translation would be, "Does this language change?  In
no way!"

Marc

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