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Re:How the brain processes German and Arabic by JBiserkov on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:56PM (#36349982)
Q: Why does past participle in German begin with "ge-"?

A: To give the speaker some time to remember what verb they had in mind 90 seconds ago when they started the sentence.

Re:How the brain processes German and Arabic by ElMocambo_x4 on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:59AM (#36353548)
Why would the "normal" way of thinking/saying things, involve putting the verb, then the object, and not the other way around ? Pretty much like arguing that the normal way of writing is from left to right. Good demonstration of how brains are wired differently.