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<H1>[Mageia-dev] "Hear, hear" usage</H1>
<B>Donald Stewart</B>
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<I>Fri Jan 13 10:53:26 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 13 January 2012 09:01, Oliver Burger <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">oliver.bgr at googlemail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 22:43:54 schrieb Florian Hubold:
</I>>><i> > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
</I>>><i> >> As far as I understand, that is a common British thing to do when one
</I>>><i> >> agree
</I>>><i> >> with the current speaker.
</I>>><i> Well, directly translating this phrase into german, it has another meaning.
</I>>><i> Used in colloquial language, it means something like ironically saying
</I>>><i> "well, look at that" or "enough with this nonsense" but also in the form
</I>>><i> Johnny used it.
</I>><i> You must have a different dirct translation than me. Directly translating it
</I>><i> into German makes no sense at all :D
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</I>><i> But you should never translate anything directly between languages...
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</I>><i> Oliver
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It came about because you aren't allouud to clap in parliment, so to
express your approve, hear hear is used.
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