[Mageia-dev] "Hear, hear" usage

[Donald Stewart]

On 13 January 2012 09:01, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

It came about because you aren't allouud to clap in parliment, so to
express your approve, hear hear is used.