Re: CHAT: An introduction

--- 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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