Brent wrote:

>Hey guys:
>
> This is the problem with any language (and one of the things I have broght
> frowns and gales of laughter with in conversations other than my native
> English).  Most languages (especially English) are highly idiomatic.  In
> other words, we have an expression like:
>
>"It can't compare"
>
> And in English, it very clearly means that it is "inferior".  However, the
> strict "dictionary" translation is totally different than the colloquial use
> of the phrase.  (thus Pierre's response)

but "I can't compare" does only have one meaning?

        Karl, whose mother tongue is German.

Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"