Jon, by now you should know that if you present me with ANYTHING that "Everyone is supposed to know", I shall automatically begin to pick it to pieces....
Best Wishes, Dale D
Who is not now and never has been part of the Borg collective.
And actually, that brings to mind a discussion we had in German class I had in college about the difference between the German and English understanding of humour. A native German speaker is liable to take many jokes told in English to be intellectual puzzles and then try to figure out the puzzle (i.e., taking the absurd situation that has been presented and then either accounting for it or dismissing it as foolishness)while the native English speaker is liable to think of German jokes as dumb (Q-"Is that bathtub filled up yet?" A-"Yes, it is filled up to the brim with 'Emptiness'" being a typical example)
Jon, by now you should know that if you present me with ANYTHING that "Everyone is supposed to know", I shall automatically begin to pick it to pieces....
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes, Dale D
Who is not now and never has been part of the Borg collective.
And actually, that brings to mind a discussion we had in German class I had in college about the difference between the German and English understanding of humour. A native German speaker is liable to take many jokes told in English to be intellectual puzzles and then try to figure out the puzzle (i.e., taking the absurd situation that has been presented and then either accounting for it or dismissing it as foolishness)while the native English speaker is liable to think of German jokes as dumb (Q-"Is that bathtub filled up yet?" A-"Yes, it is filled up to the brim with 'Emptiness'" being a typical example)
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes, Dale D.