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Dalek Dave wrote: Frankly given the way they treat their verbs, they don't deserve to have any
There is actually one good thing about putting verbs at the end of the sentence the way german do. As listeners can't really get the meaning/intent of the speaker before the sentence is finished then speakers are usually not interrupted.
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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With the examples given I think the German way is much easier to predict before the end of the sentence.
" I must go to ......" - Could be going anywhere.
" I must to work....." - Can only be 'go' surely?
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PB 369,782 wrote: Can only be 'go' surely?
Crawl? Fly? Sneak?
Or simply the word 'not': Zur Arbeit muss ich (heute) nicht.
No 'go' in there at all, it's assumed implicitly.
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Nobody has ever told me they are going to fly, sneak or crawl to work so I think I can safely guess 'go'.
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PB 369,782 wrote: Nobody has ever told me they are going to crawl to work
Never had a lunch time drink in the UK then?
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Yeah but I don't drink with Nagy-type lightweights.
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Should have worked in the firm I used to. Holy crap did they like drinking.
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Yeah I use to work at one place where a guy would have 4-5 pints during his 1 hour lunch then come back, sit on his favourite wooden chair and proceed to sleep for the rest of the afternoon. I use to amuse myself by filing a 1/4 inch of one leg of chair and then watching him try to get comfortable before giving up and folding a bit of paper under the shorter leg. The next day I would do another leg. That chair must have been a whole foot smaller by the time I left that company.
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That is a good point. Explains the French then!
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1) Our language was already contaminated by Latin 2000 years ago.
2) The subtle differences in grammar...
3) 100 years ago the th still was very common, but has almost disappeared since then.
4) ruchnung? It's a noun, so we start with a capital letter: Ruchnung. And then we let it resemble the word 'rechnen' (to calculate) again: Rechnung 
5) W is pronounched more like in 'what' (but without the h) most of the time. Hogan's Heroes is not really educational Z like t? More like ts as in 'parts'. A single s is pronounced softly, like in 'sand'. A double s or ß are pronounced more sharply.
6) Ad the very big difference between 'Sie' and 'sie'
7) We should add 'getronk' to the dictionary. Sounds better than 'getrunken'. And while we are at it, we should also change 'betrunken' to 'betronk'.
8)That should work well.
Erudite_Eric wrote: And there you go, Nu kan sie Deutsh spreken!
Finally. Thanks, even if it resembles Dutch a little more
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modified 9 May '13 - 4:55.
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