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To: ImJason
I like English for the simple fact that our sentences are structured in such a way that the listener knows what's going on up front. Not so with other languages, German, for example.

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

32 posted on 10/28/2008 7:26:33 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: Spread the Wealth = Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs)
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