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From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine)
Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:05:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC5iaNGGjvnaa-HTs0bpHtsDMn9G---K_1=gyaRSHraNAib3iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140510115158.x+L+UNYY%sdaoden@yandex.com>

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Hello!
Let us also consider the dialect of Yiddish. It contains many
expressions originally in German, and an equally ungrammatical
smattering of Hebrew.

You'd be surprised what a lot of us say when our programs crash. Me? I
simply wish that the designer of the system go end up like a turnip.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex.com> wrote:
> Gilbert Morgan <gilbertmm at sdf.org> wrote:
>  |Haha, wasn't Mark Twain who famously butchered it this way?
>
> The two languages are so alike -- how pleasant that is; we say
> 'Ach! Gott!' you say 'Goddamn.'”
>
> --steffen
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-10 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 21:07 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-09 23:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-09 23:44   ` Gilbert Morgan
2014-05-10 10:51     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 15:05       ` Gregg Levine [this message]
2014-05-10 20:18         ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 21:39           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 22:20             ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 23:30               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-10 23:41                 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11  5:14             ` Ori Idan
2014-05-11  6:00               ` John Cowan

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