Re: CHAT: Water and wine (was: Corpses)

At 12:03 AM 11/10/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Isidora Zamora scripsit:
>
> > >Wein allein macht dumm,
> > >das beweist der student am tische.
> > >Wasser allein macht stumm,
> > >das bewisen im wasser die fische.
> > >Um nicht eines von beiden zu sein
> > >trink' ich mit wasser vermischt mein wein.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I speak Danish, not German :)
>
>The general idea is that wine alone makes you stupid, as the student
>on the table proves, whereas water alone makes you mute, as the fish
>in the water proves.  So being neither the one nor the other I drink
>water and wine mixed.
>
>(I apologize in advance for any blunders.)
Once again, thank you for enlightening me.   Now that you have roughly
translated it, I can roughly understand the German text.  It's very clever.

Isidora

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