Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 0:16 |
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, laokou wrote:
> From: "Christophe Grandsire"
>
> > The V2 requirement is IMHO one of the neatest feature of Germanic
> languages
> > (too bad English lost it :))
>
> Down, but not out:
>
> Under no circumstances shall we .....
>
> Never have I seen .....
>
> So do they.
And the alternatives (except for `So they do') don't sound so much wrong
as completely and utterly ungrammatical, like saying `On Wedensday went I
to the beach'.
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
- BSD Games' Fortune
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