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