[En-Nut-Discussion] Optimizing nutconf [off topic]

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Mon Jan 12 11:48:26 CET 2009


duane ellis wrote:
 > I love the german "Gift" - vrs the english "gift" - quite a different
thing.

Why, a fishy gift is logically called poi(s)son in French. ;-)

Another one: 'to get' is 'bekommen' in German. You can easily spot
Germans in a restaurant, when they 'become a Coke'.

On the other hand it is amazing, that 'overlook' and 'übersehen'
(over=über, look=sehen) have the same ambiguity in German and in English.

Harald



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