In <45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b902724...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, on
08/31/2009
at 03:06 PM, "Thompson, Steve" <steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> said:
>My wife speaks German. I speak a very small bite of German (not correct
>but a literal for how I would say I speak a little German in Deutsch).
>She attempted to say something for me at my level and realized that she
>had used the wrong form of "to hear". I thought she was telling me that
>what I heard "belonged here." In context, it kinda made sense (I can hear
>a certain poster in Germany having a very good laugh right about
>now).
A native Anglophone speaking Hebrew can trip over idioms in an amusing
fashion, e.g., asking how to get to the bathroom when you meant to ask
about a shared taxicab.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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