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Post by revmichael on Apr 23, 2009 6:25:56 GMT
... 'Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.'
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Post by Fi on Apr 25, 2009 10:24:51 GMT
Hmmm - the converse, that is ... 'Fewer things are harder to put up with than a bad example.' is, I suggest, also true.
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Post by tigerlily on Apr 25, 2009 14:29:31 GMT
Mark Twain also wrote possibly the funniest diatribe on learning another language ever.
'The Awful German Language'.
I could not possibly comment.
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Post by revmichael on Apr 27, 2009 6:36:53 GMT
Mark Twain also wrote possibly the funniest diatribe on learning another language ever. 'The Awful German Language'. I could not possibly comment. Did he mean that it sounds rather harsh? Surely not ...
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Post by tigerlily on Apr 27, 2009 11:32:31 GMT
No, it was a very funny essay on the demerits of the language. A famous quote from it: 'I would rather decline a beer than decline a German noun'.
I concur.
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Post by revmichael on Apr 28, 2009 6:49:13 GMT
No, it was a very funny essay on the demerits of the language. A famous quote from it: 'I would rather decline a beer than decline a German noun'. I concur. I'm inclined to agree - and I don't like beer.
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