[lit-ideas] Re: Untranslatable You?
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:14:10 -0400
Scribe1865@xxxxxxx writes:
: In a message dated 6/25/2004 2:13:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
: andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
: Googly, Spam and gobbledegook have been voted among the most untranslatable
: words in the
: English language,
: _____
: Gobbledegook is "quatsch" in German isn't it? Surely many languages have
: their quatsch?
What you are saying is Quatsch; ``goobldegook'' is
``Kauderwelsch.''
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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