"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."
Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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German: "Wenn der deutsche Schriftsteller in einen Satz taucht, hat man ihn die längste Zeit gesehen; bis er auf der anderen Seite seines Atlantiks wieder hervorkommt mit seinem Verbum im Mund."

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