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water : Wasser {de}

• Was (macht) er? -> What is he doing -> What are you doing? ^[1]
• How do you do it? ^{[1] [2]}
• Why are you doing it the way you are doing it? ^{[1] [3]}

^[1] Questions an interested and concerned bystander would ask occasionally, especially when people are acting strangely.

^[2] "How do you do?" is also a salutation: "Showing concern means making sense"

^[3] When your ethical position is questionable ^[4] this may appear as a moses test.

^[4] questionable or, maybe, just not very well defined or well thought out.

petroleum / crude oil ^[1] : very dirty water

• Crude oil comes from the drilling platforms (me-tall isles).
• Crude oil consists of the remnants of dinosaurs.

^[1] In analogy to crude oil the Discworld has a Schmaltzberg where high quality fat is mined.

[edit] References

• Jesus walked on water.
• Jesus turned water into wine.
• In countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Urdu, Plato is called Eflatun, which means a spring of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge.

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