Re: Illiteracy in America

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy_at_mips.inka.de)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:04:44 +0000 (UTC)

Torsten Poulin <t_usenet_drop@hotmail.com> wrote:

> if you want to stop a torrent of speech. A cease-fire is a
> <våbenhvile> "weapons' rest" or <våbenstilstand> "weapons'
> standstill". Funny that English has <standstill> and Danish has
> <stilstand>. Especially becase when we have <stilstand>, somebody
> or something <står stille>.

German has "Stillstand" as well, which strikes me as the natural
order in Germanic languages: attribute precedes noun. 

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de