OK! - :-)

[maxie_online]

Hello Schnahz,

I suppose you are the only one, anyway, who is going to read this posting. :-) - I was looking around on the LiveJournal sites in order to learn a bit more about this system and forgot about the time. As it is too late now for a new log, let me leave link to
a nice German article of DIE ZEIT for you (in case you have the time

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Hi Maxie

[schnahz]

Thanks for the article. As you may already know, contrary to what the author indicated,another expression has survived, "nuff said" is alive and well in the American black community. So gentle readers, after you have read Die Zeit you can come to Maxie on Line for the complete story.
"Nit" as in nit picking seemed interesting to my ears too;so I hauled down my trusy and crusty (I left it out in the rain once)Webster's unabridged 2nd edition and found: nit [Anglosaxon hnitu; compare Icelandic gnit, nitr,Swedish gnet,a nit]
1 the egg of a louse or other small insect. 2 the young insect. So I guess it's been in the languge a long time.
Don't you just love typing with a cat in your lap trying to help you? john

Hello John :-)

[maxie_online]

I love cats everywhere! Especially Willi takes care that I get some breaks while sitting at the computer.
When a friend was here for the first time, she said: It is cosy here - whereever you look to, there is a cat! (Ok, one must love cats to think like that. :-))
Do you have a cat or dog, John?

Thank you for your explanations about "nit" in "nit-picking". So probably "nitty-gritty" is somehow derived from it, too, isn't it? "Nitty-gritty" for something basic, fundamental. "Come to the nitty-gritty" - "zur Sache kommen". Sometimes one learns an idiom just like new vocabulary and is not aware of the origin ...

Re: Hello John :-)

[maxie_online]

This is Willi.