[thechat] Possessive or not?

Bob Davis bobd at members.evolt.org
Thu Jul 18 14:44:09 CDT 2002


At 12:18 PM -0700 7/18/02, Quackamoe wrote:
>
>While I'm in a multilingual literary mood how about
>Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in German:
>
>http://www.schreiberey.de/jabber.html
>http://erp.fis.utoronto.ca/~easun/rabbit/1.1/academy.html
>

Damn! That's odd sounding.

I can't help but think about how funny it'd be to give that to a
classroom full of 2nd year German students as a translation exercise.
By then, they're just capable enough to really be flustered with it!

I wouldn't be able to pass it out without laughing!

bob

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