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Old 06-15-2008, 01:54 PM   #68
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I think it's highly unlikely that the basic grammar of the language will change to the extent of appearing to have been written by a person with the most superficial knowledge of German grammar, but I'll grant you that it is a possible explanation.
You might well be right. People attempted to teach me Latin, French, and Spanish, but I know next to nothing about German, and wouldn't catch the error. While the vocabulary of a language mutates, underlying grammatical and syntactic structure tends to be more stable.

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PS: Sorry about the spelling mistake. I have a friend called "David Webber" (with two "b"s), and constantly get the spelling of the two confused!
As long as you don't confuse their writing...
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