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- From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
- Subject: Re: Back in Germany
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:03:29 GMT
- Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
- Message-ID: <1k8sk1EINNgb0@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1j1guqEINN1rb@uni-erlangen.de> <phineas00156930016180518@brombeer.sta.sub.org> <1993Jan19.062505.3383@udel.edu> <1993Jan19.181232.8117@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- panero@cheshire.oxy.edu (Jan Panero) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan19.062505.3383@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
- >>In article <phineas00156930016180518@brombeer.sta.sub.org> phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer) writes:
- >>>uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
-
- >>>> Krauts never catch nothing satirical.
- >>>> ^^^^^
- >>>Really cool... But don't be so proud of your ability to speak and
- >>>understand English, especially if you don't catch any german humor.
- >>> ^^^^^
-
- Proud? What an outrageous understatement! I'm arrogantly conceited
- about it!
- Ich bin stolz, ein Buerger von Welt zu sein! :-)
-
- >>Not "catch" but "get". Uli, you're just going to have to watch more
- >>"Golden Girls"...
-
- That's Ool! Oh God, I hate diminuitives!
-
- >Is this supposed to be a correction of English usage? If so, I would
- >say "catch" and "get" are equally correct here - just very slight
- >shades of meaning. I guess you can't learn everything from Golden
- >Girls...
-
- So there! :-)
-
- Besides I quoted the Catch 22 from somewhere above, now deleted. I
- wouldn't use "catch" myself outside connotations of thieves and diseas-
- es.
-
- So there, too! :-)
-
- Face it! I'm so much cooler than any of you, my brain cells are super-
- conductive. Anyone else out there doubting my infallibility? :-)
-
- I hope all those smileys showed my being generally at ease with the
- world. And that some people would be also, if they took my postings a
- bit less serious.
-
-
- May the Cool Be with You!
-
- (C)OOL mcmxciii
- "And now comes ze time on Schprocket vhen ve dahnce!"
-