XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin
From: nobody@home.com
In article ,
phil@anonymous.invalid says...
>
> On 13/11/2024 15:20, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > On 2024-11-11, Hibou wrote:
> >
> >>> "Si tu continues ā 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.
> >
>
> Some BrE speakers would take it further
>
> "He's been and gone and done it".
>
> Or even (cross-thread) "He's _only_ been and gone and done it".
"Gonnae nae dae that".
Glaswegian to English translation:
"I strongly advise you to desist."
Janet.
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