angels and other weird beings

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From: Hubertus Franke
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 18:30

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Recently the quotation "Ich weiss jetzt was ein/kein Engel weiss" got cited
frequently. The urgent call from <J.Wexler> for a comment from a real german
source woke me up. After all this discussion even I got confused. However I
believe the correct version is "kein". The quotation origins from the believe
that angels know most things going on in the world. A person using it wants
to express his/her excitement about something he/she discovered,
that he/she believes is not known to anybody else (including angels).

But may be I'm mistaken and there's angel who knows it.

                Hubertus Franke (franke@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)

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