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Re: "glow pear"
- Subject: Re: "glow pear"
- From: Flash flash@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:54:18 +0200
Extended adjectival clauses, oh ye...
The sitting-opposite-me-on-the-tram-looking-sternly-at-me person did
not deign to return my "good morning" as I sat down on the seat
opposite her, in the tram..... Eegit.
German also has separable verbs: the prefix or suffix gets detached
from the root and occurs at the very end of the sentence, miles away
from the root. So you read through a whole family sage crammed into one
long run-on sentence, all the while thinking you know what is going on,
only to have it negated by an -un just before the full stop. Maddning,
or hilarious, depending.