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Re: The cost of time

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, February 11, 2002, 22:51
Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> One can throw away one's time in Norwegian, just as in English. As for > passing time, we have a funny idiom: "å slå ihjel tiden" ('to beat time to > death').
We say "killing time" for the same meaning. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42