Re:Learn to read Middle English
by hwj on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:22AM
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Here's another one:
> 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.
Re:Learn to read Middle English
by weinzierl on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:38PM
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This actually is a Mark Twain quote. When I heard the story about the professor and the students it was attributed to Mark Twain too, but when I tried to look it up before posting I couldn't find a clue.
> 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.