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Paul Graupp wrote:I'd put in my two cents but I can't recall where I left them...

It's O.K. Paul. Drop in a nickle __ over priced I know, but NOTHING is cheap these days.

Joe Harwell wrote:...the ability of "high" German...

I've always thought that High German is a misleading discription of the language, giving the impression that it's a higher level of German. The truth is that most of Germany spoke "Low German" (being Lowland German) until the middle ages, at which time the influence of "High German" (being Highland German) moved down from the mountainous areas onto the planes and became standard German. Our English (Anglo-Saxon) ancestors came from a Lowland German background, and that's why English and Dutch/Flemish are so similar, while modern-day Saxony has become over-run with Highland German speakers. The closest living language to Proto-German, from which sprang Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Frisian, English, Flemish, Icelandic, Afrikaans, etc., is Dutch, whereas High German has moved away from Old German. English is closer to Old German than High German is. Look at...
Water (Old German)
Water (Dutch/Flemish)
Water (English)
Wasser (Modern German)

All of which has NOTHING to do with NOTHING.

Alan Brookes wrote: All of which has NOTHING to do with NOTHING.

So you posted something!?!?!

Travis Hillis wrote:...So you posted something!?!?!

Forgive me, for I have sinned.

While I'm looking for that nickle, I'd thought I'd say NOTHING about my German ancestry. My Grandmother took my father back to Germany when he was 18 months old. When he became 18 years of age, he returned to the USA and when he fathered my older brother and myself and then two sets of male twins, he decided to move from the city to the country...

Pennsylvania Dutch Country they called it. They spoke what he called Low German whereas he spoke High German. But they could communicate where the kids could not. I asked a Dutch playmate: How do you say How are you in Dutch ? He replied: Vie Hengdt die ? But when I said that, rather proudly I might add, to my Father, he slapped me to the ground and I learned a vital lesson for life, never saying those words again until this reminded me of them.

Did I learn something or was it just another NOTHING ??

Regards, Paul

Machs nix !!

The word Dutch has an interesting history. It comes from Deutsch/Deuts. At the time it came into the English language it referred to Low German in general. Over the years the Low German area has shrunk down as High German spread north, so that nowadays the word only refers to Netherlanders. People often wonder why Germans refer to themselves as Deutsch, while nowadays Dutch refers only to Netherlanders. At the time the Pennsylvania Dutch came into existence the word usage was different. The Netherlanders themselves prefer to be referred to as Nederlander. Remember that not all Netherlanders come from Holland. That's just one province.

And all this has nothing to do with steel guitars.

My friend went to the Saratoga, NY thoroughbred horse racing track today. He said he came home with nothing in his pocket. Is there more that one nothing ?

I you construct a wood guitar with bone nut and bridge,
install gut strings, play it with a ceramic bar and plastic picks,
what do you really have?

...a nothing steel guitar.

I have a gut-strung classical guitar with the tuners turned upside-down, and I play it with a Tribotone bar. That just about fulfils your requirements except that the machine tuners are metal. Come to think of it, they're plated brass, so it really is a nothing-steel guitar.

What a messy workshop.

I done stoled this here from another thread...

what just happened?

Nothing happened, b0b... Nothing.

You've entered the Twilight Zone.

"Nothing" seems to have happened while I wasn't looking. I can't wait for it to happen again.

Call me up sometime when you have NOTHING to do and I'll have NOTHING to do with you !!

Regards, Paul

Wife says, "what are you going to do today?"
Hubby repies, "nothing!"
Wife says, "you did that yesterday."
Hubby replies, "I did'nt finish it!"

Paul, if you have NOTHING to do on September 24th, come over to the Ole Clinton Opry. I'll be there to play an 8:30 spot.

And the search continues . . .

As a matter of fact, NOTHING has been said here that's worth something __ including this.

Roger: Sorry I missed you but I had SOMETHING to do and missed your invite...

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What this has to do with ANYTHING is NOTHING to me...

Regards, Paul

"There Was a Young Girl from Nantucket" 31 Pages.

Of course, compared with "Nothing" that's nothing.

Of course, compared with "Nothing" that's nothing.

Gnihton is nothing spelled backward __ and that's something.
But, why is that something, and nothing is just plain nothing?
Those of us who are interested in nothing would like to know.

GNIHTON he touches turns to gold...where did he go wrong ?

I was going to post this comment in "Don't Understand"...but I did'nt because I understand nothing.

Larry, if you understand nothing, you're one step ahead of the rest of us!

Alan Brookes wrote:The big bang seems to be something from nothing. In a universe where absolutely nothing exists, how could matter have suddenly come into existence ? I would have thought that in the absence of everything, the one thing you could guarantee is that nothing would happen.

Recent scientific theory is partly explaining the error in Einstein's idea that everything expanded from an infinitely small particle at the time of the Big Bang. For years physicists have been trying to explain why their formulæ stop working when they try to go back further than a fraction of a second from the beginning. The answer is suspected to be that matter and energy, like everything else, cannot be condensed beyond a certain level; that the Big Bang originated from a BIg Crunch, where the Universe had previously contracted to the point where further contraction was physically impossible, resulting in the Big Bang. Under that theory the Universe and Time are infinite, and there is a continual succession of expansion - contraction - bang -expansion - contraction - bang - expansion - contraction - bang, ad infinitum.

So there never was, and never will be, a time where NOTHING exists. The Universe wasn't created: it always was.