Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"
From: daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Mon May 10 00:08:20 2004
References: <BCC4198A.BB4B%mark@rabinergroup.com> <409ECD02.7050707@Hemenway.com> <409ECCD3.4010308@netscape.net>
 
Not quite ... almost.

Feet "do" the things that a nose should "do" (smell) and vice versa. The
German "stinken" is intransitive, a nose can smell, but only theoretically
"stink" (and then it means something else).

Difference between transitive and intransitive :)

IRREGARDLESS ... good point :)

Daniel


On Mon, 10 May 2004, Douglas M. Sharp wrote:

>  F?sse stinken, Nase l?uft - just the same in German.
>  Douglas
>
> Jim Hemenway schrieb:
>
> > Is English the only language where you can have feet that smell and a
> > nose that runs?
> >
> > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> >
> >
>
>
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good")
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