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Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax



On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 at 17:03 GMT, Ron Johnson penned:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
>> enough
>> as "Herrmensch" to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass off.
> 
> Ummm....  "Herr" is like "Sir", and "mensch" is plural of "man", I
> think.  "Sir man" is, pardon the pun, a foreign concept to me.
> Surely, it's an idiom, though, that I'd understand in a different
> form.
> 

He probably meant "U(e)bermensch."

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