Hello Bob, On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:39:07 -0700 GMT (19/01/2009, 01:39 +0700 GMT), Bob Riley wrote:
BR>>> Desgleichen meine Freunde und Mitgeister, >> Did I mention "false friends" on TBOT? "Mitgeister" are "fellow >> ghosts". I'm not sure you meant this - did you? BR> I meant (as I recall), 'My friends and fellow spirits." Hmmmm... In BR> hindsight, "fellow spiritual beings" would have been better. Yes, spirit and ghost is the same word in German (Geist). Maybe "meine Brueder und Schwestern im Geiste" would come close to what you mean. BR> From Freetranslations.com comes my next question: I anser this in reply to mse. BR> Perhaps a "Poltergeist" guided my hands on the keyboard with the first BR> English being submitted to the translating software. Interestingly enough, poltergeist ist one of the German words that made it into the English language (we use many English words when speaking German and call them Anglizismen), along with kindergarten and the philosophical zeitgeist. >> Is this list being read in the afterworld? BR> That, I cannot answer! You might ask the late General George Patton, BR> who believed very strongly in reincarnation (I am not wise enough to BR> evaluate that), and so could indeed be reading these messages before BR> he returns to human form as a living saint, having tired of the BR> senseless slaughter of battle. Hm. I don't really think that they have internet in the afterworld. BR> And, to return to topic before we are both censured - 4.1.9.3 BR> continues to run very smoothly, apart from the not uncommon lags in BR> Gmail IMAP when loading a queue of message bodies in the Inbox. And I BR> am sure that a major effort is (or will be) coming to improve/rebuild BR> TB's IMAP function. Yes, in order to avoid flying fish, I absolutely agree with you. I have never used IMAP, I don't even like the concept of keeping the mails on the server and not being able to search for earlier business mails (those containing quotations, for example) when for some reason I don't have access to the internet. The internet connection in this hotel's business center was down, and this guy next to me who had to access an old mail couldn't, because IMAP was company policy - no problem with my POP mails in Voyager. But each to his own. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. I've heard people are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.0.28.4 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.9.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
