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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2007-01-17 09:13 am
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Compliments of an acquaintance on the ZBB:
Die, die die, die die Gänse gestohlen haben festnehmen werden, werden belohnt werden.
Perfectly grammatical, if stylistically a touch odd. Does anyone want to have a shot at parsing it before I gloss it for y'all?

[identity profile] wwidsith.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Nice, this reminds me of the English sentence with 11 "had"s in a row..

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I only recently learned that one; the one I've known since childhood stops at eight.