Since everybody here seems to like maps | 45 comments (45 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: German grammar overload (none / 0)

Actually, in German rail magazines, if they only say a pictured train runs between say Berlin and Hamburg, I find direction is often not what you'd assume from the word order.

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by DoDo on Sat Apr 1st, 2006 at 08:23:57 AM EST
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Re: German grammar overload (none / 0)

Which I suppose means I was right in assuming there was something about german grammar inplicit in PeWi's comment.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 05:09:49 AM EST
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Re: German grammar overload (none / 0)

Well, my native, english speaking wife, was laughing her head of, when I told her about this problem - so yes, German Grammar overload...

by PeWi on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 10:28:38 AM EST
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Re: German grammar overload (4.00 / 2)

interesting side issue to this.

They did some research in Franken and asked people about the direction to the next village and found correlation between the relative age of the villages and the prepositions used to describe the way. So "over there, " the other village was younger, and "back there" the village was older.
Funny eh.

by PeWi on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 10:32:16 AM EST
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Re: German grammar overload (none / 0)

Wow.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 03:52:10 PM EST
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Since everybody here seems to like maps | 45 comments (45 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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