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2019-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe wrote: > "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" > R A Heinlein Does history record any case in which the opinion of the majority was actually known and recorded correctly and objectively? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

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2019-06-23 Thread Joe
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:00:10 +0300 Georgios wrote: > Personally > Right or wrong are highly subjective. Besides that right or wrong > always has to do with your goal. What accomplish your goal is right. > for example. > Want to be good a math? > Well the right thing to do is study after school. >

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2019-06-23 Thread Georgios
Personally Right or wrong are highly subjective. Besides that right or wrong always has to do with your goal. What accomplish your goal is right. for example. Want to be good a math? Well the right thing to do is study after school. Socially You could say that every society based on its values fi

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2019-06-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Cool I didn't know it was Marx Bros. In one of their movies Groucho is hugging a tall blonde who keeps saying "Hold me closer". Finally he says, "I get any closer I'll be on the other side of you". :-) On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:26 AM Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On

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2019-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, June 23, 2019 09:55:33 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> "If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" >> -same sketch > > Something makes me think / remember that was not original with Monty Python > -- > I think it was

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2019-06-23 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 09:55:33 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > "If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" > -same sketch Something makes me think / remember that was not original with Monty Python -- I think it was Groucho Marx who said the same thing (or something ver

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2019-06-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
"If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" -same sketch On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 3:45 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > deloptes wrote: > > https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/grammatik/verben/imperativ > > Reminds me somewhat of > "The Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch" > htt

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2019-06-23 Thread Joe
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:57:26 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 01:45:25AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > > too much wrong thinking - there are two fraction in science- > > mainstream supports CO2 lie. Look at arguments on both sides from > > real scientists (Not the face Potsdamer Insti

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2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 01:45:25AM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > too much wrong thinking - there are two fraction in science- mainstream > supports CO2 lie. Look at arguments on both sides from real scientists (Not > the face Potsdamer Institut für Klimaforschung <- these are fake). Mainstream a

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2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/grammatik/verben/imperativ Reminds me somewhat of "The Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch" http://www.montypython.net/scripts/phrasebk.php (There is a lengthy link list before the sketch text begins.) "Publisher: I wish to plead incompetence."

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2019-06-23 Thread Elmo
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, deloptes wrote: Elmo wrote: and you can say, "take me to the train-station" as peremptorily in English as in German. part of the error in the quotation is the implication that Germans are curt because they need fewer words to say things. first, "take me to the train-stat

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2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Elmo wrote: > and you can say, "take me to the train-station" as peremptorily in > English as in German. > > part of the error in the quotation is the implication that Germans are > curt because they need fewer words to say things. > > first, "take me to the train-station (please)." has pretty m

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2019-06-22 Thread Elmo
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, deloptes wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: Juhwohl. "Please" with exclamation mark is to be considered imperial. Tsuck Marsh. No - you missed some forms in school. For example Der Imperativ ist im Deutschen sehr gebräuchlich, weil wir hier mit wenigen Wörtern sagen können,

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2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Juhwohl. "Please" with exclamation mark is to be considered imperial. > Tsuck Marsh. > No - you missed some forms in school. For example Der Imperativ ist im Deutschen sehr gebräuchlich, weil wir hier mit wenigen Wörtern sagen können, was der andere tun soll. Für Nicht-M

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2019-06-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (Actually this deviated sub-thread was intended to be about pros and cons of teenagers, not about our inevitable end.) deloptes wrote: > I said please - it is not a command - are you German? Your name sounds > German and your acting as well ;-) Juhwohl. "Please" with exclamation mark is to