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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. -- Andrew Smith -- hobbit@griffler.co.nz -- http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html