Re: Some help with Latin
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 17:04 |
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Hi!
Andreas Johansson writes:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>:
>
> > On 2007-10-01 Adam Walker wrote:
> > > The Chinese "eat" medicine. Crunch. Crunch.
> > > Blluugghhhhh!
> >
> > The Finns too, apparently. To me the term
> > implies a aquescence with a necessary evil
> > which I revolt against.
>
> I'm not sure what language the second comment applies to, but I've certainly
> heard _äta medicin_ in Swedish. In fact, I occasionally use it myself.
Hmm, German does not do that, I think. It's interesting that the
usual German 'nehmen', English 'take' has nothing to do with ingestion
at all.
**Henrik
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