From: Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>
Date: 2001-05-11T16:29:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14982] Re: OT: Drei Fehller

At 10:42 AM 5/11/01 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> > What is your translation of:
> >
> > Dieser Satz beinhalten drei Fehller.
> >
> > I could not find an English word for Fehller.
> >
>
>Bob,
>
> >From my smattering of German, and my familiarity with
>the English equivalent, it means:
>
>"There is three errers in this sentence."
>
>It's an old trick question.

I'd say it's more a paradox than a trick question. The question is: is the 
above sentence true or false?

>The first error is that "is" should be "are."
>The second error is that "errers" should be "errors" (or
>"Fehller" should be "Fehler").

So far, so good.

>The third error is that "three" should be "two."

But if "three" should be "two", then there are three errors in the 
sentence. Therefore, "three" is correct. Therefore, there are two errors in 
the sentence. Therefore, "three" should be "two". Therefore...

Bye,
         Luigi