It still applies to translations, though.  I wonder whether the
     original passage of German legalese might actually be a translation
     from English into German.

     That would be pretty funny.

     Marilyn


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Subject: Re: "Dispatching of enamels at us does not have period-prote
Author:  Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]> at np--internet
Date:    1/19/01 4:02 PM


In a message dated 1/19/2001 8:49:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Translation is an art, not a science, nicht wahr?? >>


As Frau Nisam, my HS German teacher taught us regarding translations and
women: "Sind sie schoen, sind sie nicht Treu; sind sie Treu, sind sie nicht
schoen."  What was funny in the olden days turns out to be sexist racist
piggism now, even if it did come from a female personage.  Who later went to
the loony bin.

Ralph