Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

charles wrote:

> Just for amusement, here is Mark Twain's humorous dissection
> of German, which is infamous for its verb-lastness:
> http://eserver.org/langs/the-awful-german-language.txt
This is really quite funny... I laughed uproariously over this.  Teonaht
commits some of the same crimes that Twain cites here, although I'll
have to admit that it can't touch late 19th-century German when it
comes to grammatical gender.  Thank God I did away with that!

But I do have certain expressions like "Over the step cracked-by-
hard-snow he tripped," and "The dog big-his-ears
after the girl red-her-hair he chased."


Back from Florida... my paper was very well-received... very hot,
sandy, humid place that was so restful to the nerves.  I'll inform
y'all shortly.


Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves