[Mageia-dev] "Hear, hear" usage

Oliver Burger oliver.bgr at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 13 09:01:11 CET 2012


Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 22:43:54 schrieb Florian Hubold:
> > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
> >> As far as I understand, that is a common British thing to do when one
> >> agree
> >> with the current speaker.
> Well, directly translating this phrase into german, it has another meaning.
> Used in colloquial language, it means something like ironically saying
> "well, look at that" or "enough with this nonsense" but also in the form
> Johnny used it.
You must have a different dirct translation than me. Directly translating it 
into German makes no sense at all :D

But you should never translate anything directly between languages...

Oliver


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