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