Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:26:11 +0800
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the dictionary, and then I find it means the latter. There are lots of suchwords and they are a great torment. To increase the difficulty there arewords which SEEM to resemble each other, and yet do not; but they make justas much trouble as if they did. For instance, there is the word VERMIETHEN Hopelessness and resolution were alike struck out of his face by the fury of benevolence with which the old man cut him short. Dont you dare to speak a word against it, boy! cried Jehiel in a labored anguish. Good Lord! Im only doin it for you because I have to! Ive been through what youre layin out for yourself an stood it, somehow, an now Im most done with it all. But twould be like beginnin it all again to see you startin in. seins to the end of his oration. This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech,some meaning to your mind because you are able to remember a good deal ofwhat has gone before. Now here is a sentence from a popular and excellentit. I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmestmoods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.and masculine, the humiliating second thought will quickly remind him thatin this respect he is no better off than any woman or cow in the land. In the German it is true that by some oversight of the inventor of thelanguage, a Woman is a female; but a Wife (Weib) is not -- which is
