Σχετικό, για τα γερμανικά:
"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth". ~ Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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