On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote:
> For a fuller exposition of verboten und/oder erlaubt, a recent Russian > textbook of mine had this Soviet-era joke (with my translation): > > "In England, what is allowed is allowed, but what is forbidden is > forbidden. > In Germany, everything is forbidden except that which is allowed. > In America, everything is allowed except that which is forbidden. > In France, everything is allowed, even that which is forbidden. > In the Soviet Union, everything is forbidden, even that which is allowed." > > Bill Fairchild > Rocket Software > very good. > > > Was ist nicht erlaubt is verboten (What is not allowed is forbidden). > > Was ist nicht verboten ist erlaubt (What is not forbidden is allowed). >
