In a message dated 9/29/2004 9:01:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes: Couldn't Henninge just be left? ---- Don't think so. He contributes good posts. He is obsessed with how the English people systematically mistraslate German idioms, but -- I say: it's far worse to leave them in _German_. (Not perhaps for the sake of the German literature -- but I suppose that if the Kritique of the Poor Reason had never been so magistrally translated into English literature, the English would think that 'cant' refers only to some type of highland jargon. Ah well. Cheers, JL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html