[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Tue Jun 18 00:09:45 UTC 2002
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 16:53, John Hampton wrote:
> >I still think this is a false statement. I went all over Germany and never
> >saw saw a single sign in English. I have to believe my eyes more than your
> >statement.
>
> I too went to Germany and saw English stop signs.
> And I trust my eyes too. So I guess we will just have to disagree on
> this point. (I will concede that it is possible that since the time I
> went to Germany they have taken all of them down, but there were some
> when I went last.)
You might have been a) In the American or English sectors or b) Seeing
German signs. The German and English words "stop" are cognates,
although I think more often the Germans use "halt." Actually, the
German word is "stopp".
Wil
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