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RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispel


From: Jürgen Hartmann
Subject: RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:13:58 +0200

Emanuel Berg wrote:

>>> Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung ;-) ...
>>> a certificate of inability to work ...
>>
>> Indeed: This word is in active and daily use
>> (fortunately not in mine).
>>
>> As a standard example for the German composing
>> scheme, the perfectly valid German word
>  
> Yeah, I think the attempted humor was the notion of
> Germans as well-organized workaholics.

Oh, I see.   :-)

> But it is
> actually the UK people who are that. They just hide it
> by being relaxed and polite at the same time as
> working.

In the region of Germany where I come from, being relaxed and polite and to
work mutually exclude each other. If anybody seems to combine all tree of
them, nobody will trust him any more.

> Well, hell - you know what Mr. Bush says:
> "You can't fool everyone, but you can fool some, and
> those are the ones you should focus on."

And he did, did he?

Juergen

                                          

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