From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:37:12 -0400, Michelle Bottorff   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   >> That's correct.  In German:   
      
   > <...>   
      
   >>    Gestern schlug er sie.   
   >>    Yesterday hit he her.   
      
   > Thank you!   
      
   > ... I had previously been told that in German the verb   
   > always came last. Must be one of those urban legend type   
   > thingies.  :)   
      
   That’s true of the finite verb in subordinate clauses, and   
   of the non-finite verb in compound tenses.   
      
      ... ein Mann, der wie ein Italiener aussah.   
      ... a man who like an Italian looked.   
      
      Gestern hat ihm mein Vater ein Märchen erzählt.   
      Yesterday has him my father a fairytale told.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)