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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2004-05-03 07:00 pm

Useful Phrases in German:

"Ich hatte mehr angst fuer mein Komputer dann fuer mein Fuss!!" -- Diane Duane, here.

If you have also fallen and slipped on ice whilst carrying your laptop, you may share this sentiment.

[identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com 2004-05-04 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
I would have used "als" in the comparison. Using "dann" sounds like an English-speaking person reaching for translation of "than" and grasping anything that appears similar.

But that, of course, is how an American speaks Foreign.