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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: English is a Germanic Language?
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:11:30 GMT
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In article <44e8hk$ado@dove.nist.gov>, billf@jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov wrote:

> In article <44c6pd$rku@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, mam@arlvax.arl.psu.edu
(Martin A. Mazur) writes:

> > And then there is that 
> > funny thing the Germans do where they put the verb on hold for a half 
> > paragraph or so, and then spring it on you. ... 
> 
>   Can anyone out there remember the beautiful quote by Mark Twain on this?
>   Something like the verb diving down, swimming under everything until
>   the next clause, where it surfaces with a fish in its mouth.
> 

By which time you've already figured out what the verb is and you're
saying to yourself come on, spit it out already.

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R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
