XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 6/3/2024 2:09 PM, Phil Carmody wrote:   
   > This probably ties in with the french "ne" thread, but that one has gone   
   > to the shitter.   
   >   
   > I was watching some Danish TV today, and it contained a riddle that   
   > translated exactly, solution included obviously, into English. I'll   
   > simplify, but nothing significant has been changed:   
      
   >    I am greater than the greatest thing   
   >    I am less than the least thing   
   >    If you eat me, you will die   
   >    What am I?   
      
      
   > The answer being "nothing", because nothing is blah-de-blah... etc.   
   >   
   > I was pleased, but not hugely surprised by the Danish and English   
   > correspondence, and wondered whether this was just a germanic wordplay.   
   >   
   > And we're right, aren't we Danes herein, Linda just ain't funny at all,   
   > is she?   
   >   
   > Phil   
      
      
      
   Ths doesn't  wrok in French?   
      
      
   i'm sure it can't  work in Chinese or Japanese.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)