# debabelize the common expression! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860 "2001-05-19T00:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/41 "2001-05-24T02:13:45Z")
> [@](#): > > **Only the good young people of the stencils** Only the good die young? > [@](#): > > **The woman did not have a sexual intercourse with that** I did not have sexual relations with that woman > [@](#): > > **The large one entendement thinks immediately.** Something about Think before you speak? or the wise person thinks before he speaks? ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/42 "2001-05-24T03:54:14Z")
Sorry Kaz, that seems like it, but actually it’s far from it. What does entendement mean, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/43 "2001-05-24T04:08:21Z")
**Everything we live decadent in a submarine** [Eng - Ger - Eng - Chi - Eng - Por - Ita - Eng] It’s still too easy, I think. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/44 "2001-05-24T04:10:59Z")
**It goes in the ampere of 11.** Eng - Kor - Eng - Ger - Fra - Eng - Spa - Eng 'Twas once in my sig. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/45 "2001-05-24T04:27:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\*_The large one entendement thinks immediately._ \*\* Is that “great minds think alike” **Speaker**? ---
**Author:** ![Sparteye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Sparteye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparteye)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/46 "2001-05-24T04:39:21Z")
**Jack Batty** , thank you for the SD page translation. It all makes so much more sense to me now, especially: > [@](#): > > The Mundane must share the dull material. **AETBOND417** , re > [@](#): > > Everything we live decadent in a submarine = we all live in a yellow submarine? OK, guys, try this one, from English - Chinese - English: What light listens to, breaks by way of the yonder window? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/47 "2001-05-24T07:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparteye \* > \*\*OK, guys, try this one, from English - Chinese - English: > > What light listens to, breaks by way of the yonder window? > \*\* “What light through yonder window breaks?” –Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene ii If this isn’t right, it’s a pretty eerie coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/48 "2001-05-24T12:44:57Z")
**donkeyoatey** , you’re the winner! It is ‘great minds think alike’. ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/49 "2001-05-24T14:37:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\*Sorry Kaz, that seems like it, but actually it’s far from it. What does entendement mean, anyway? \*\* Ahh well. About _entendement_, if I remember my French correctly, then the verb _entendre_ means “to hear.” Also, this I know for sure (hopefully?), the suffix “-ment” is the same as the suffix “-ly” in English, meaning that this word is an adverb. So, if I am correct (which it sure as hell seems like I’m not, and I have my doubts…) then this is the adverb “hearingly,” as in “How was he running?” “He was running hearingly.” Pretty crazy if ya ask me. I’m waiting to be corrected here, however. 🙂 > [@](#): > > It goes in the ampere of 11. uhh… ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/50 "2001-05-24T16:49:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kaz \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > **Only the good young people of the stencils** > > Only the good die young? > > \*\* You got it, **Kaz**. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/51 "2001-05-24T21:40:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparteye \* > \*\ ***Jack Batty** , thank you for the SD page translation. It all makes so much more sense to me now, especially: > > > [@](#): > > > > The Mundane must share the dull material. > > \*\* I kind of got a kick out of that too, but I was rather fond of > [@](#): > > **BBQ hollow** I can just imagine … Wheee-doggy, pardner. I can’t rightly say that your words ain’t done got me in a right dither. I think I’m a-gonna have to take you on down to the ol’ **BBQ hollow** and give you what-fer. Y’all come back now, y’hear? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/52 "2001-05-24T23:25:15Z")
> [@](#): > > **It goes in the ampere of 11.** You’re playing at ten, all the way up, all the way up, then when you need that extra push over the cliff…what do you do? eleven? Exactly. why not make ten a little bit louder, and let ten be the top number and make that a little bit louder? \ \*\*These go to eleven. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/53 "2001-05-24T23:28:35Z")
Oh, I’m assuming the typed in pre-translation quote was “this amplifier goes to eleven” ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860/54 "2001-05-25T02:54:00Z")
I believe it was “These amps go to eleven”. Congrats Joe Cool. Also, the “We all live in a yellow submarine” post was correct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debabelize-the-common-expression/65860.md?page=2)