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"..opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose." You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
by lkozma 16y ago
"..opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose."
You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
- lkozma 16y agoor as Twain said: "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
- jazzyb 16y agoI have encouraged many of my friends to learn German just so they can understand the comedic brilliance of "The Awful German Language". For those who have studied German but haven't read Twain yet: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language
- ktf 16y agoOr in Japan!