[D-community-offtopic] users and computers [was: Re: Customized Debian - Was: ...]

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:09:29 +0100, Chris Bannister  
<cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:41:52 +0100, Chris Bannister
>> <cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> >On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:38:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> >>OT for the OT, but a real joke: At a German office I've seen a women
>> >                                                                 ^^^^^
>> >								 woman
>>
>> [out of whole cloth] She is (they are) Siamese twins. [/out of whole
>> cloth] :).
>
> Yeah, OK. One for the academics to discuss over their daily golf game.
> Incidentally, is "[out of whole cloth]" a German cliche/saying?
> Ummm, ... hang on ... ahhh, here we are:
> http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/19/magazine/on-language-out-of-the-whole-cloth.html
>
> Weird, never heard of "out of the whole cloth" before. Live and learn.

No in Germany we say "erstunken" another word for "erlogen" and "erlogen"  
= bogus and bogus
http://www.dict.cc/?s=erstunken+und+erlogen
http://www.dict.cc/?s=erlogen