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To: mbarker12474
Nice sentence structure.

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.” Mark Twain

Counts for Austrian, too, I guess.

9 posted on 11/02/2011 12:25:03 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Where's he getting these ideas? He's not smart enough to be that stupid all by himself.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

“Austrian” = German (linguistically)


10 posted on 11/02/2011 12:41:45 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Paine in the Neck

Wait, I can extend this joke further:

Die LesendedsjungebraunhaarendesBlauaugendessammenaustossedesgassenschlampe.


16 posted on 11/02/2011 1:15:13 PM PDT by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Great essay. I’m tempted to read it again tonight.


17 posted on 11/02/2011 1:33:12 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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