(2007-12-06) New survey on the RFC site: Small kitchen appliances
Michael Kuettner wrote:
> "Julia Altshuler" schrieb :
>> Michael Kuettner wrote:
>>> AFAIR, it went : "While every language borrows words, the English
>>> language is the only one to lure the victim into a dark alley,
>>> knocks it over the head and goes through the pockets for
>>> vocabulary."
>>
>>
>> I love the quote! Any idea who said it and in what? A quick google
>> check didn't yield it.
>>
> My money would be on Mark Twain; but I don't know.
> Another quote (from Twain) : "I went to a German theater play the
> other day. It was so boring that I left before the verb."
LOL
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