Hi Måns, "noses that run and feet that smell" are not only a Danish colloquial speaking; we in German have the same: "noses that run" = "laufende Nasen" "feet that smell" = "stinkende Füsse"
Cheers Michael On Sep 8, 9:32 am, Måns <[email protected]> wrote: > LumpyMilk is a great blogspot - thanks for sharing! > > Btw - Danish has also the "crazy" expressions: "noses that run and > feet that smell". > I don't know the etymological explanation - but I know for certain > that Danes believe that they are of old Danish origin... and not > "loanwords" (if that is an English word?)... > > YS Måns Mårtensson > > On 8 Sep., 00:35, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes the English language is knots :-) > > > "English is Tuff > > Stough"http://lumpymilk.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BEnglish%20is%20Tuff%20Stough%5... > > > "This Crazy > > Language"http://lumpymilk.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BThis%20Crazy%20Language%5D%5D > > > -e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
