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Re: Some help with Latin

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 22:13
Hi!

Elliott Lash writes:
> --- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote: > > ... > > It's > > interesting that the > > usual German 'nehmen', English 'take' has nothing to > > do with ingestion > > at all. > > Well, I say and have heard said "Take your medicine" > for liquid and pill medicine.
That's just what I meant -- although you swallow medicine, many languages do not necessarily name it. **Henrik

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