XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-11-11, Hibou  wrote:   
      
   >> "Si tu continues à manger autant de bonbons, tu vas aller et tomber   
   >> malade !"   
   >>   
   >> "Wenn du so laut redest, wirst du noch gehen und die Nachbarn stören!"   
   >   
   > I'm going to skip the German, and approach the French with caution, not   
   > being a native speaker.   
      
   The German feels weird, but seems to mean "... you'll go    
   and disturb the neighbors".  It implies a physical displacement.   
   Your French is a lot better than mine, but I'd interpret the French   
   the same way. In both cases the implied movement is unconnected to   
   the rest of sentence, making the semantics feel weird.   
      
   In English, "go and " is an idiomatic expression that emphasizes   
   .  German and French don't use this idiom.   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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