“你会完成这句话的”:英语读者的德语经度

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Petra Rau
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德语以其复杂的句法和语法而闻名,这使得学习者很难熟练掌握。在这个抱怨中没有说出来的是副词“不必要的”——这意味着所有这些降格、变化、动词分裂和多重从属的概念,除了以拉丁语或古希腊语的方式炫耀困难之外,没有任何真正的目的。也许最委屈的指责来自精通德语的作家马克·吐温,他在1880年的文章《可怕的德语》中写道:
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‘You will finish this sentence’: German Longitude for Anglophone Readers
The German language has a reputation for complex syntax and complicated grammar that make it hard for the learner to attain proficiency. Unspoken in this complaint is the adverb “unnecessarily” — the notion that all this declining, conjugating, verb-splitting and multiple subordinating does not really serve any purpose other than ostentatious difficulty, in the manner of say, Latin or ancient Greek. Perhaps the most aggrieved charge came from a very proficient speaker of German, the writer Mark Twain, in his essay “The Awful German Language” (1880):
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