"Daniel F Heiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:43:15 +0200 Gernot Hilger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <snip> > > > > one respects it > > > the other despises it > > > the third watches it > > > what is it > > The final question might be better translated: > "What is it doing?"
that would be literal. But Was macht's is a German phrase with two different possible meanings: 1) What difference does it make? So what? 2) How much is it? What's the damage? > Still seems to me that the answer to the riddle may be a clock marking > off the hours. I should doubt that because of the second who scorns it. Rather guess it's beauty. All the best, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
