I was playing around with slight changes in wording ("I'm gone"
vs. "I'm a goner") and came up with that German phrase. I would
not invest money in a venture based on info from Google translation.
Either best or beast,
Ken
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On 6/16/2013 5:41 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:25:29 -0700, Ken Steele wrote:
The typical example of the difference an article can have in
this context is:
"I am Danish." vs. "I am a Danish."
Yeah, but a Danish "what"? ;-)
Wiedersehen. Ich bin weg vom Fenster.
Now Google translate says:
"Goodbye. I'm a goner."
But a more literal translation is something like:
"Goodbye. I'm away from the window"
NOTE: window=fenster -- still remember some vocabulary.
I'm not sure how one gets from "I'm away from the window" to
"I'm a goner" (paraphrases like "I'm out the window" use different
words in German), so I wonder whether this is an idiomatic
expression or what.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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