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		nicbou on Aug 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Write in Plain English I was just thinking about German the whole time. I knew a German to Polish translator and she complained about how hard live translation was when a key part of the sentence is held until the very end.

wrycoder on Aug 25, 2020 [–]

Ten minutes into his lecture, the German professor exclaimed to his restless audience, “Don’t leave yet, I was just getting to the verb.”

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