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Article #4030Re: Can't see the wood for the trees
From: Michael Rodionov
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 13:11
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 13:11
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Peter Moylan (peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au) wrote: : A couple of weeks ago I used the expression "can't see the wood : for the trees" in a posting to comp.lang.modula2. Somebody asked : me if I was Dutch; apparently this expression is common in Dutch : (as well as in English). At the time I conjectured that the : expression must have come from the common ancestor of Dutch and : English. [skipped] Hiya Peter! So, there is an expression is Russian that seems to be very similiar with your's. I do not think such talk is cool for comp.lang.modula2, but it is very interesting itself. I have no ideas about first source of this phrase, but it seems to me that there is something like this in ALL common languages. With best regards, -- Michael A. Rodionov,NSU maths department, group 4141. Phone:+7-383-2-397895. FAX: +7-3832-355238. Email: marod@cnit.nsk.su. http://www.cnit.nsk.su/~marod. General Keywords: Linux,UNIX,FTP,HylaFAX,HTML,IRC][,Modula-2,OS/2,DOOM ][.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mx.nsu.nsk.su!iceman!marod From: marod@iceman (Michael Rodionov) Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Can't see the wood for the trees Followup-To: alt.usage.english,comp.lang.modula2 Date: 7 Sep 1995 13:11:14 GMT Organization: Novosibirsk State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <42mr1i$a1@mx.nsu.nsk.su> References: <423j4r$pqh@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: iceman.cnit.nsk.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]