Re: Trying GMail

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:42:27 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:

>Hehehehehe. That does indeed sound like some German I've read. A big
>cluster of NPs followed by a big cluster of verbs, and the poor reader is
>left to play connect-the-dots. I remember my German teacher at high-school
>talking about an occasion at the UN where someone was actually speaking in
>that style, and the translater had to simply stall and wait for the verbs.
>We were told to avoid such style where possible, although it could be used
>sparingly for effect.
Nah, it's just SOV in subordinate clauses, you know that. Nevertheless, the
trend is that subclauses beginning with "weil" (because) are SVO, too! Or,
if I may ask, do you mean that this guy who spoke in front of the UN, which
means "United Languages" as you surely know, spoke like this, that is, with
many subordinate clauses inside of a subordinate clause, which makes it
*really* hard to listen, even for a native speaker? I hate it when people
talk that way. You cannot follow them and things get boring pretty soon when
you listen to them. My former Chemistry teacher used to talk that way in
lessons. He often forgot what he wanted to say or said at the beginning only
because the sentence was already very long -- and he's just 30 years old!

Carsten