On 06/02/2019 12:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 06/02/2019 19:37, ken young wrote:
>> In article , address@not.available
>> (R.Wieser)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>   Well, maybe its to you, but not generally
>>
>> It is a common phrase with that meaning in the United Kingdom, though
>> you may have a point. Using idiomatic expressions in an international
>> news group is asking to be misunderstood.
>>
> Oh yeah it's all my fault OK?
>
> I have to realise that Germans have no sense of hummour don't run the
> world (yet), and are extremely fragile little snowflakes and whilst they
> think they can understand English they really can't.
>
> Oh dear
> How sad
> Never mind.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo&list=RDz4uivPpzCGo
>
>
>
TNP!

you had me on your side of applying Ohm's law (even though that could be
a "German" or close minded :-) - Then again Ohm was GERMAN!

Please have a look at https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-history
for the full article:

"The historical aspect of English really encompasses more than the three
stages of development just under consideration. English has what might
be called a prehistory as well. As we have seen, our language did not
simply spring into existence; it was brought from the Continent by
Germanic tribes who had no form of writing and hence left no records.
Philologists know that they must have spoken a dialect of a language
that can be called West Germanic and that other dialects of this unknown
language must have included the ancestors of such languages as German,
Dutch, Low German, and Frisian. They know this because of certain
systematic similarities which these languages share with each other but
do not share with, say, Danish. However, they have had somehow to
reconstruct what that language was like in its lexicon, phonology,
grammar, and semantics as best they can through sophisticated techniques
of comparison developed chiefly during the last century."

i.e. English based on German & Dutch (Low German and Frisian)...

"..., and thus English is just one relatively young member of an ancient
family of languages whose descendants cover a fair portion of the globe."

Knickers hanging loose old boy!
"Don't mention the war!"
;-)




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