Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> asked: > > Spelling is certainly painful in English - but have you ever tried to use > > a comma correctly in German? David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > Well, that's an interesting question. I lived in Zurich in 1966-67, > and then took 4 years of German in highschool (straight As), and then > scored a perfect 800 on the SAT German Achievement test. I don't > recall that commas were particularly an issue in German, though. > (I've hardly touched it since, so I'm sure I don't have it all > straight *now*.) It's not particularly complicated, but it's different than in English, and it requires some understanding of grammar. If you don't grok clauses, you can't do it right. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com