[geeks] Phrasebooks

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Mon Dec 31 14:44:15 CST 2007


>From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
>Date: 2007/12/31 Mon PM 01:12:37 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Phrasebooks

>Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

<snip>

>> I once met a person who knew how to say "I am a pencil" in 18 
>> languages. Not much else in any except English, his native
>> language and French because his wife made her living teaching
>> French.
>
>I have a list of "My god!  There's an axe in my head!" in 103 languages.
> I'm not certain which is the less useful of the two.  :)

Yours is - while the other fellow will never be a pencil, it is at least 
*possible* that you will get an axe in your head AND be with a blind person 
(that can't see the aforementioned axe in your head)...

Lionel



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