Sunday, October 08, 2006

FrenchieF, this one's for you

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(I wish I could hang this on your office door myself.)

2 comments:

FrenchieF said...

Merci! To the office door it will go. So, what do you think it means that a German said this?

kfluff said...

As if the Germs get to talk about using language to change people's ideas. Losers.