This flexibility is one of the things I like best about the English language - you can rarely change the meaning of a word just slightly if you do it in German - if you replace a word, it usually is with a totally different word.
Makes our humor work in a totally different way, where language is concerned (slapstick, of course, works everywhere).
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Date: 2011-10-03 08:41 am (UTC)Makes our humor work in a totally different way, where language is concerned (slapstick, of course, works everywhere).