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Taulie wrote: for sure, for an english speaking it's very difficult.
Another paradox since English is a Germanic language first and foremost.
There is of course the story of the simultaneous translator (into English) at an EU conference with the long-winded German speaker at the podium. The English listeners were a little surprised to find that at one point the voice in their ears simply stopped and there ensued a silence which was stretching into minutes before an exasperated cry of 'The verb, man, what's the **** verb?'
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Quote: Parentheses in literature and dentistry are in bad taste.
Mark Twain always has the best one-liners.
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Some of the 10 seem rather redundant as their English equivalents have been doing the rounds for quite long enough not to have to dress them up as u-words; ear worm particularly!
I'm quite happy to stick at the one German word in my vocabulary which captures everything you need to know about life, the universe and everything; schadenfreude.
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before i read this i din't knew that in english no word for "Schadenfreude" exist
curious
am sure we have a lot of these and that is only the tip of the hill
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that's a very good word everything indeed
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Ja, die deutsche Sprache ist manchmal recht kühl, vor allem im Winter.
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Just need help with a few of the details.
Firstly, does anyone have a good idea on how to get rid of six or seven billion people?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Contact Mr Osama Bin Laden, c/o Pakistan.
If it's returned "Not known at this address", try again - he's just the shy, retiring sort...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The late Mr Laden!
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Some kind of Zombie disease should do it, or more likely a lethal, incurable and rapidly spreading flu.
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Simply by waiting roughly 20 to 30 years
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think the human lifespan is a bit more than that.
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i read similar quote here in someone's signature...
i want to change the world and make it better but someone could please give me access to the source code.
Ravi Khoda
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Well i suggest a disease, i practiced that with plague inc.
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Quote: Firstly, does anyone have a good idea on how to get rid of six or seven billion people?
it says charity begins at home. you can start with yourself first.
Ravi Khoda
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The world would be a better place if we got rid of ...
... all the impurities in the minds of all six/seven billion of us.
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I would like to keep my impurities, thank you very much.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Great minds...
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Me too!
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Maybe, impurities was a wrong word. I can always take excuse that English is not my natural language
I meant, a world bereft of despair, and sorrow; where everyone is happy, almost like a family. Then all the 6/7 billions will be happily co-existing.
I know, sounds like Utopia.
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Avijnata wrote: I meant, a world bereft of despair, and sorrow; where everyone is happy They would not know they were happy, it would not even be anything special anymore. You cannot have positive without negative.
Avijnata wrote: Then all the 6/7 billions will be happily co-existing. Peacefull co-existence is self-defying; you'll find that there is something called "evolution" that has simply programmed us otherwise.
Aiming for something that cannot be achieved always ends up in a failure.
Avijnata wrote: Maybe, impurities was a wrong word. I don't think it is; politicians seem to exist to identify these things and to protect me from them. Because politicians know what good is for me, something that I cannot possibly know
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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