It's a bona fide US holiday, which trumps even Friday. I should not take on someone with a bona fide Germanic name, but German happens to be the closest thing I have to a (distant) second language.
"(Der) alter Kacker is the masculine singular." Definite article 'der' changes adjective from marked masculine 'alter' to 'alte'. As opposed to indefinite article as in 'ein alter Mann'. If you're old enough to remember the venerable statesman Konrad Adenauer, he was referred to 'Der Alte', . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Gerhard Postpischil <gerh...@valley.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > On 7/3/2013 12:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote: > As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us > about the state of mainframe IT. Somewhat off topic, but if that was supposed to be German, it's wrong. I only have a rudimentary knowledge of Yiddish, but I believe it's wrong there, too. (Die) alte Kacker is the valid masculine plural. (Der) alter Kacker is the masculine singular. (Die) alte Kackerin is the feminine singular. I assume you meant the second form, unless you are suffering from multiple personality disorder <g> Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
