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To: german_speaker
Picky, picky

Next thing you know you'll want to spell Klinton with a C.

American speakers do tend to change spelling and shorten things. Besides the E in Clausewitz is silent.

BTT for a Great Political and military theorist second only to Machiavelli.

6 posted on 04/25/2002 7:50:30 PM PDT by Cacique
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To: Cacique
"Besides the E in Clausewitz is silent."

There are no silent letters in German.

It is pronounced Klow-se-vitz.

12 posted on 04/25/2002 8:03:43 PM PDT by okie01
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To: Cacique

btt


39 posted on 04/25/2008 2:47:47 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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