Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
fÃŒr German, it makes more sense to use the Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) as commonly used in Forth, PostScript, and HP calculators. e.g.: 1 2 sende-nachricht
However: German is not RPN, the word order in a sentence is very similar to the one in English
"German books are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head--so as to reverse the construction--but I think that to learn to read and understand a German newspaper is a thing which must always remain an impossibility to a foreigner." -- Mark Twain 1880
Well, in subordinate clauses the predicate indeed comes last, which is different from English. However in main clauses the predicate always is "infix" in German as well, so yodaish sounds as funny to us as to you.
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