Thanks a fool in paradise and RB for the pings.
Posted on 12/08/2015 7:32:46 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Millenniums?
Really?
Yes, but in my case the plural of Millenia would be foolish. Never, ever buy a Mazda Millenia or its subsequent renaming ‘626’. It should have been called the ‘666’...................
My roommate had a 626, back around 1983. It was indeed a piece of crap.
Thanks a fool in paradise and RB for the pings.
Very cool
A very significant find.
“Don’t you mean the dumminati?”
Polysyllabificationizing is strictly forbiddenated.
You gentlemen have likely seen this before, but still, a blast from the past for old time's sake;
Extract from http://www.kombu.de/twain-2.htm
There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty.
If one has the time, the opening preceding portions, inclusive of where the bird and the rain and a blacksmith's shop are being discussed as found, apparently from some kind of German language grammar primer, prior to the above blockquoted extract, are delightful.
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