How to Write in Plain English

Re:How to Write in Plain English by jdashg on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:39PM (#24288561)

Pretty much! However, as such it's really only second in simple present and preterite statements, which are actually sort of rare outside of really simple sentences.

In light of that, the default German construction is effectively verb-last. (separable prefixes moving to the end exacerbates this need for buffering too)

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Re:How to Write in Plain English by gizmo385 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:01PM (#24297981)

Good point! The separable verb things is super strange for me as a native English speaker. I haven't internalized the meaning for any separable verbs so whenever I see them in text, I usually end up having to re-read or re-listen to the text with the knowledge in mind to actually get the meaning.

Üben macht den Meister!

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