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A simplier math formula
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17/12/2008 07:26:03
 
 
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17/12/2008 05:49:39
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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>>>>>>...
>>>>>>It's not a bug, it's part of the design.
>>>>>
>>>>>Amen
>>>>
>>>>You said "amen". It shows this's just a "wish", not "approval".. :)))
>>>
>>>In the sence it's used in christian church it's approval. And it's the end word of a prayer it also mean "end".
>>>
>>>So I say Approval / End
>>>
>>>Agnes (^.^)
>>
>>I always thought Amen meant "Let it be so", as in "I beseech the Lord to make this [what's just been prayed for] happen".
>
>Literally. So this is an approval to that was said in the prayer? Or do I understand the word the wrong way?

>
>We use (colloquial) "Amen und aus" -> "Amen and end" to express that there is nothing more to be said and we agree.

So do we - "Amen to that"

Like an ending and agreement (just as amen comes at the end of a prayer) - So be it.

See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amen


>
>See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a&p=11
>
>Agnes
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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