(don't speak dutch, so I'm guessing): [jan f@n 'stenb@rxen rot] (<-if
that's wrong, like I'm sure it is, how DO you pronounce your name?))
> --- John Cowan skrzypszy:
>
> > Okay, okay. I was only trying to be helpful. :-)
>
> It was by no means intended as a ridiculization of your explanation. I
merely
> wanted to express my astonishment by the fact that similar expressions
exist in
> litterally the same form in several languages. One thing that has never
ceased
> to amaze me is that Polish and Dutch have so many expressions in common
that
> don't exist in German. I have never really understood how such a situation
> could have emerged.
So, then, is there no expression "to turn over in ones grave" in German,
that would follow your pattern?
Jake