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Re: [L-OT] Digest Number 719

2002-10-24 by Tobias Seyb

At 16:16 Uhr +0200 24.10.2002, Obliviän | Bacteria AS wrote:
>Well, coming from Norway I guess I am in no position to translate German. It
>isn't even my third or fourth language, but überwachen, doesn't it mean
>surveillance or to monitor, hence rendering the sentence to: I like to
>watch! And if it's mostly guys on beaches wearing the T-shirts it makes
>sense, doesn't it! hehe! I like to watch girls on the beach!

Great, your deep understanding of the aussie shirt wearers!
But then the japanese translators should have written: "Ich spanne gerne".
We don´t say that in germany, no, no we.

:-o

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