re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germans are dead literal and often do not grasp the kind of sarcastic, ironic humor that goes around three corners to make its point.

You are absolutely correct. I drove to a party once with a gal from Germany, and when she would confirm directions, I had to stop saying “Right,” because she’d try to take right hand turns. I guess “richtig” must have gone through way more changes in English than it did in the mother tongue.