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Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 21:22
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> The tendency for lengthy verb strongs is pretty pangermanic; "I will have > been ..." is only too common in English.
Which just goes back to the poverty of tenses in Proto-Germanic. We had to construct the missing ones by stringing verbs together. :) -Mark

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