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Also this bit from Connecticut Yankee "She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclo

Also this bit from Connecticut Yankee "She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. 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."

escherplex 8y ago
True. German sticks auxillary verbs in the middle of a sentence and main verbs at the end. Knew a guy from Lufthansa who joked that sometimes he would attend lectures with orators delivering long sentences and sometimes wouldn't know what was being referenced until the end of a sentence when the main verb showed up two minutes later.
- spiralx 8y ago
  Which is why I've read that jokes - where the format is setup and then the twist - are hard to express in German :)