ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?
Doug Merritt
doug at netcom.com
Mon Nov 8 21:48:34 PST 1993
Eli Brandt <ebrandt at jarthur.Claremont.EDU> said
>And in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ we find:
>F. Russian/Chinese mechanical translator translates "out of sight, out of mind"
> into "blind and insane". Also "Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"
> as "the drink is good but the meat is rotten."
>
>(The "F" means "known to be false")
I think we were already agreeing that the folklore is false. The
remaining question is 'where did it originate'? My hypothesis was
that it came out of a linguistic research paper giving an example.
Doug
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