XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.german   
   From: no_email@invalid.invalid   
      
   Christian Weisgerber  wrote:   
   > On 2024-04-05, wugi  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>        Es ist ein Schutz, wie eine Haut, bei Birken, Linden, Eichen.   
   >>>        Doch wenn man was bestimmtes isst, mag man's daran nicht   
   leiden.   
   >>   
   >> Or else "an etwas leiden": to suffer from sth.   
   >> But to suffer from what?   
   >> And what with "es an etwas leiden"??   
   >   
   > That must be an obsolete usage, I can't quite make sense of it   
   > either.   
   >   
      
   My broken german read it as   
   'but if one that certain (thing) eats, may one it thereat not suffer' =   
   'but if one eats this thing, one may not complain about it'.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)