On Monday 15 April 2002 09:24 am, you wrote: > > [... Andrew Ross wrote ...] > > > > > Here's a gedanken experiment [...] > > > > A _what_ ? Is this a valid word in your language ? I'm asking because it > > definitely has german roots, the word 'gedanken' .... That's funny, > > It is a popular word in the USA. Not sure whether this is due to too > many people having watched the Bomb and Rocket documentaries, full of > german expat scientists with actors that know a dozen words of german, > or whether the terminology arrived with the jewish community. > > It seems stupid to me, the english word "thought" works fine after all. > America seems to encourage vocabularizing [grin] by stealing words > from alien languages instead of learning a few more of the ones in english. > >
It's easier to look smart if you can confuse people ;) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
