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|    Ruud Harmsen to All    |
|    Re: Official German spelling update    |
|    16 Jul 24 14:12:47    |
      From: rh@rudhar.com              15 Jul 2024 19:46:05 GMT: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)       scribeva:              >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:       >>understand the expression "Vielen Dank!" we can't analyze       >>it further. It's opaque to us.       >       > The "vielen" feels as if the formally singular "Dank" is taken       > "semantically" to be a plural.              Why? It's a singular masculin accusative!                     --       Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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