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Robert Peters wrote:
>The German Nietzsche sentence "Der Deutsche denkt sich selbst Gott
>liedersingend" cannot express "The German, when singing, thinks of himself
>as a God" - simply because the sentence would be grammatically incorrect.
>Nietzsche wrote a crystal clear German. He would never made such a mistake
>in word order. It is simply not possible - not even with poetic licence -
>to put the adverb at the end of the sentence. The only possibility would
>be to write "Der Deutsche denkt sich selbst Gott, liedersingend" - which
>is very awkward and not Nietzsche at all. ...
I love it when people are so sure of themselves, so sure, in fact that they
find adverbs at the end of sentences where there aren't any.
O Freunde, nicht diese Toene! Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen und
freudenvollere!
Care to relocate that final adjective, anyone?
Walter Meyer
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