From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 28 7:30:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6FF37B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13pX03-0007ki-00; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:30:23 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9SDmkV50153 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:48:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: german, anyone Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8telfu$1gv0$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20001028121159.K14117@atreides.freenix.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Shaun Jurrens wrote: > The text: > "An open operating system can occassionally mutate. With Windows > 2000, however, all of the services and (services|daemons)* come from > one source (literally hand). That saves time and therefore money, > really. More info under ....(bla.mircrosleaze.com)" > > The question as to whether "wirklich" is an adverb or an adjective is a > matter of interpretation. There is no -ly suffix marker in German to make > the distinction definitive in such cases, However, this is almost always disambiguated by the lack of inflectional suffixes for the adverb. If it were an adjective, it would say "Das spart ... wirkliches Geld". Which would mean "real money" in the sense of not counterfeited. You can't translate the English colloquial idiom "real money" (a lot of money) literally. If you look at the way "wirklich Geld sparen" and "saving real money" are used in the respective languages, you'll see that they are equivalent, although their literal meaning isn't quite the same. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message