"..opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose."
You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
"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."
For those who have studied German but haven't read Twain yet: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language