Re: Can't see the wood for the trees

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From: jthorpe
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 14:07

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In <42mpl6$l8s@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>, beyer@hrz-serv7.hrz.uni-kassel.de (Lothar Beyer) writes:
>Peter Moylan (peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au) wrote:
>
>: Since then I've been told that the expression exists in French
>: (which I didn't know, although I have a moderately good
>: knowledge of French); in Japanese; and possibly also in Chinese.
>
>In German, too. 
>"den Wald vor lauter Baeumen nicht sehen". Unfortunately I don't
>know how old this expression is in German.
>
>
I've been casually reading this line since it started
and it's taken me until this morning to realise that
the discussion on the difference in meanings between
wood, woods, forest etc., misses the point.

The wood in this expression is the material that the trees 
comprise.  

Jim T.

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