Re: German lesson

From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>
To: Sheltie Jim <jim.melton@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:42:14 -0400

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On 2017-04-06 23:26, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:

Wort - word

Wert - value

Notice how a slight shift of vowel turns word into value and turns value into word, and remember that in the beginning was the Word.

In English it's "word" vs. "worth" (although we don't use "worth" as a technical term), and so the difference is in the final consonant.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org

Higglédy-pigglèdy / XML programmers

Try to escape those / I-eighteen-N woes;

Incontrovertibly / What we need more of is

Unicode weenies and / François Yergeaus.

GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures

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