[Mageia-dev] "Hear, hear" usage

Thorsten van Lil tvl83 at gmx.de
Fri Jan 13 11:09:09 CET 2012


Am 13.01.2012 09:01, schrieb Oliver Burger:
> 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

I would translate it with "Hört! Hört!", which isn't used anymore, but 
is still understandable.

Regards,
Thorsten


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