02-16-2013, 08:43 PM
There was a joke about the "first English-Russian computer translator" which claimed that the expression "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" translated and then translated back came out "The Vodka is good but the meat is rotten".
I had a bit of fun last year. We went up Pike's Peak (on the train, of course!) with a cousin and his German girlfriend. She spotted a marmot and I said "Ein Murmultier." Not a common vocabulary word? But there is an idiom "Wie ein Murmultier schlafen" -- to sleep like a marmot.
I had a bit of fun last year. We went up Pike's Peak (on the train, of course!) with a cousin and his German girlfriend. She spotted a marmot and I said "Ein Murmultier." Not a common vocabulary word? But there is an idiom "Wie ein Murmultier schlafen" -- to sleep like a marmot.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.