Re: Another Ozymandias
From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
Date: | Thursday, July 27, 2006, 4:25 |
On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:54, Sally Caves wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Newton" <philip.newton@...>
>
> > On 7/26/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> >> On 7/25/06, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> >> > Etonen yllefon
> >> > Amendorln mimmeslim nom;
> >> > Yry uon fraga. :( :(
> >>
> >> ... which means?
> >
> > To be
> > Or not to be
> > That is the question
> >
> > obviously; the "fraga" in the last line gives it away.
>
> LOL! I'll accept that.
>
> Bär
> oder nicht bär.
> Das ist hier die Frage.
>
> Written on a wall near the "bear pit" in Bern.
>
Would you mind parsing the Teonaht phrase. I keep thinking that the
repeated infinitive should be evident, but it doesn't say 'here I am'
to me.
- andrew.
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