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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
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Subject: Re: A whole nother story
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 11:44:44 EST
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I found it interesting that in Afrikaans there is an expression
     "dit is heeltemal  'n ander     storie",  or directly translated:
      it  is completely a  different story.

Since "complete" can also mean "whole", and "a different" can also mean
"another", my initial reaction to "a whole nother story" was that it is
an awkward translation of "heeltemal 'n ander storie":
   a whole another story  --> a whole 'nother story.

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