Re: (TOT) OKAY I'am the black man !!!
On Monday 05 December 2005 11:01, Keith Ivey wrote: >Shayne Lebrun wrote: >> Ah, a bit of linguistic mixup. You'd have been better served by >> phrasing it 'man in black,' mein Herr; to evoke the vision of the >> black-hatted cowboy, or the evil guy in black leather, and so on. > >Yes, but then people would have thought he was talking about Johnny > Cash. Only in America. I think he did his best work in the last 5 years of his life. But I'm a fan for the last 40+ years, so take that with sufficient salt. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: (TOT) OKAY I'am the black man !!!
Shayne Lebrun wrote: Ah, a bit of linguistic mixup. You'd have been better served by phrasing it 'man in black,' mein Herr; to evoke the vision of the black-hatted cowboy, or the evil guy in black leather, and so on. Yes, but then people would have thought he was talking about Johnny Cash. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC
(TOT) OKAY I'am the black man !!!
> poor you - all you see is hate an racism. > are you american? > > the "black man" regarding to the second advent is allso called : > black man = Krampuss, Klaubau, Bubutz, Perchten, Pelznickel, Hans > Muff, Hans > Trab, Perchten, Buutz, Schwoaftuifl ... > Ah, a bit of linguistic mixup. You'd have been better served by phrasing it 'man in black,' mein Herr; to evoke the vision of the black-hatted cowboy, or the evil guy in black leather, and so on. I've had similar problems in the other direction; a German friend of mine used to break out into howling gales of laughter when I would try to get some point across in German, but phrasing it in an English way, or not realizing that a certain turn of phrase has a different cultural connotation, auf Deutsch. Just to help foster a little understanding with my cousins south of the border, and our cousins across the the oceans.
