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Letter "G" » German
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.»
Author: Hermann Goering
| Keywords:
cauldron, cowardly, crystal, crystal clear, emerged, extracted, German, middle class, synthesis, throwing, way of life
«One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.»
«The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Civilization,
Community
| Keywords:
German, in the head, Italians, peacocks, sneezing
«Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is never safe from Gallic revenge, But he who gets even with a German Is obliterated like a vermin»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| Keywords:
exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, Gallic, German, He Who Gets, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, presently, vermin
«The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
German, government of the United, government of the United States, imperial, Maintaining, omit, omits, omitting, Safeguarding, The Imperial
«Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Orchestras
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, consequently, German, Orchestras, perdition, profanity, sworn
«There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.»
«There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.»
«The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlling, German, probity, rests, sincerity, sprightliness, steadily, superficial, the English, the French
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