Re: CHAT: An introduction
From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 22:43 |
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed scripsit:
>
> > Good luck! I'll refrain from quoting any of Mark Twain's damning
> > commentary on the subject. :)
>
> We can all read it for ourselves at
> http://www.mastertexts.com/Twain_Mark/A_Tramp_Abroad/Chapter001003.htm
> and many other excellent sites.
Ah yes... I remember it. It contains a few very good
observations, but 90% of it is utter twaddle proving only
that Twain's knowledge of German sucked. His rant about
the cases of German is positively grotesque. ;-)
> "In German, all the Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good
> idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from
> its lonesomeness."
At least it's funny in some instances. =)
-- Christian Thalmann
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