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On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly |
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> > deprecate the idiocies over time. |
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> Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all adverbs |
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> before their verbs, or that inserts a comma between a verb and its object? |
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There's nothing wrong with either of those things, a language is built by |
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convention after all. If you know the convention, you can use the language. |
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And German has no need to use the English conventions. |
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But German is consistent. English is not consistent. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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