From: Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Reading by deleting after the colon in .newsrc deleting .newsrc~ deleting .newsrc.eld
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:44:07 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d6nkgu1m.fsf@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84smwgv54f.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> (Though I think that the English idiom is to say that people have
> five thumbs on a hand, instead of that they have two left hands. In
> German, people have two left hands instead of many thumbs ;-)
> --
A more common usage of American english, at least from the
Mississippi to the West Coast, and amongst working class people, is to say
some one is `all thumbs'. Very close to your comments.
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2002-12-30 1:44 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2002-12-30 11:04 ` Jacques L'helgoualc'h
2002-12-30 11:37 ` Kai Großjohann
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2002-12-30 22:10 ` Kai Großjohann
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