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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens'
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:59:35 -0500
References: <9DC5E2ABE65BD54CA9088DA3194461D60253455B@BBY1EXM01>

Occasionally people will say something such as, "The camera design hasn't
changed a whit since 1957".  Is this derived from "nawiht" in the Old
English expression?

Dan C.

At 10:00 PM 30-01-01 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>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
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>

In reply to: Message from Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com> (RE: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens')