Hello Maggie,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:33:45 -0500 GMT (20/02/2008, 22:33 +0700 GMT),
Maggie Meister wrote:

JF>> The German Expression is "Ver-Schlimm-Bessern" which means
JF>> "Make Things more bad by fixing them/others".

MM> In AM English: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

No, "ver-schlimm-bessern" means "making it worse by trying to fix it".
What you say is a hands-off approach, but the German meaning is
hands-on, but in a wrong way.

Sorry for this linguistic interlude. It has nothing to do with the
gist of this thread, which I don't want to contribute to. Cockidence
applies, though.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

I don't know the answer to the question you posted, but I think
someone asked this question 18 years ago on the net. Don't remember if
it got answered. Hope this helps!
http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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