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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
Summary: Not a translation
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Date: 5 Jan 90 16:38:59 GMT
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In article <380@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <1022@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
> 
> |               We in Germany say "Da werden Aepfel und Birnen
> | verglichen". (Do you speak German ? :-)
> 
>   I think your translation is incorrect. "Da werden Aepfel und Birnen
> verglichen" does not mean "do you speak German" in English ;-)





He didn't give a translation, Bill.  He was giving an aphorism
in German and parenthetically asked if the readers understood
German.  The gist of it is "attempting to compare apples and 
pears". Maybe Mr. Rommel doesn't realize that the English
equivalent is practically the same. 

Forrest Gehrke clyde!feg