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Subject: Re: I will give an exemple
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
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Richard Hachel <r.hachel@liscati.fr.invalid> wrote:

> I will give an example, although I wonder if it is useful to teach donkeys
> that do not want to drink water.

Now that we are teaching idiomatically correct English here:
(out of necessity)
The idiomatically correct expression is:
'You can lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink.'

Jan

-- 
> Let us take a watch set in such a way by a watchmaker.

[snip nonsense and home-made terminology about watches]