know from

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Thu Dec 26 21:23:47 UTC 2002


"Know from" looks to me like an inept translation of German "wissen von
[etwas]" = "know about/of [something]" (cf. "von hier" = "from here" etc.).

[Perhaps some of the scholars can correct or improve this casual notion.]

-- Doug Wilson



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