From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D43E138350 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 09:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F1E3E09B1; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 09:21:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF924E0938 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 09:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1jL1TB-0008DF-3a for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 09:21:33 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc? Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:21:32 +0100 Message-ID: <12496905.uLZWGnKmhe@peak> In-Reply-To: <20200404195956.7uqeoj5c7xr7nchg@solfire> References: <20200404173459.eggbc2sijcnkw67j@solfire> <20200404195956.7uqeoj5c7xr7nchg@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03d-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 2447ee62-b597-449b-95cc-0866befcb9c4 X-Archives-Hash: 7730e621437cd907944bebb1bed2d3e3 On Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:59:56 BST tuxic@posteo.de wrote: > I have some problems to understand, whether I understood... > > In the german language the "'s are often used to express the > opposite of what is written in words. For example: > > What a "nice" weather it is...! > > will say: > > For heavens sake, what the hell all this rain is coming > from!!!??? It's the same in English, except that "weather" is an uncountable noun, so you can't have "a weather" - it's just "weather". I'd like to put in a word about punctuation. In English it is not permissible to put a comma between the verb and its object*. It seems to be required in German, but it destroys the natural flow in English. Thus, your first sentence quoted above should not include a comma. HTH. * Sometimes you'll see a pair of commas there, setting off a parenthetical expression, but by the nature of those, they don't really contribute to the sentence, merely slipping a by-the-way phrase because it fits. -- Regards, Peter.