Michael Ossipov wrote: >there is a saying in German: >"der Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach" >try to understand.
Ah, yes. The booze is excellent, but the meat has gone bad. <g> (Translation from German to English, then to Russian and back to English can be so unpredictable.) Actually, the original (The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak) is biblical (Matthew 26:41), not German. I'm not sure, but I think Matthew wrote in Greek. It certainly wasn't German, though. And I thought George Bush had cornered the market for attributing sayings to local people (in his case, Texans). Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
