Re: Where is GMT=?
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> > Michael Meskes wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Fredrik Juhlin wrote:
> > >> Do I get to be the first to jump on this too obvious opportunity to play
> > >> besserwisser? :)
> > >
> > >Is 'besserwisser' normaly used in English that way?
Ooops. I guess I need to keep better track of which foreign word goes into
which language. Swedish borrowed it from german, english didn't. All
apologies.
> >
> > It hasn't made it into British English at all. What does it mean?
>
> It isn't in American English either and I don't recall it from my
> university classes in German (nearly 40 years ago), however besser means
> "better" and wissen means "to know" so I imagine that it probably is
> equivalent to "know-it-all" or something like that.
Yep, that's more or less exactly what it means.
Anyway, this discussion certainly gave a new dimension to my original
posting, didn't it? :)
Take care,
Fredrik Juhlin laz@rjdk.com http://www.rjdk.com/
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