[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Melusine: Not only verbally... I was hoping for the last month or so that you'd notice the embarrassment yourself, but *sigh* I'll have to be a pedant again. If you're going to quote someone, at least try to spell the name correctly, as well as the quote itself. ESPECIALLY when quoting Oscar Wilde... [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img] Pleurisding is intranslatable... well I can translate it but you can't really get the connotations and tone if you're not a native speaker of Dutch. We tend to use nasty diseases as swearwords, surely you have hear of pleurisy? So, pleurisding = pleurisy-thing.

Ok, I am *very* glad that I took that line out of my sig a few days before I noticed this
And, actually I haven`t heard of pleurisy... kind of makes me wonder about just what we *are* taught down here