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Topic ID: 145
Message ID: 54
#54, RE: On the subject of the Great War...
Posted by Mercutio on Sep-20-14 at 10:34 PM
In response to message #50
>>You either made this up, which makes you far, far more creative than
>>I'll ever be, or this is a real word in German that you know,
>>which just makes you goddamn awesome.
>
>I trust I take nothing away from Traitor's accomplishment by pointing
>out that German's like LEGO, man. Any combination of nouns and
>adjectives is a real word, all you have to do is keep plugging them
>together. :)

I actually did not know that. I took six years of French (nearly all of which I've lost, because it turns out your language center is basically use-it-or-lose-it) and French is... rigorous about what is and isn't a real word and a properly constructed sentence.

It's actually a little bit weird. I've been to France, and they're mostly some pretty laid-back folks... but you get anywhere near their culture and they will cut you. The grudge some French people hold towards I.M Pei is going to make the decades of bitching about the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn look like a quaint tiff that was quickly settled.

-Merc
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