Re: German Grammer

["Barton P. Chambers" <bartonc@mailhost.infi.net>]

Uh oh, Scott,looks like Sister Mary-Margret got us both.  Man! my knuckles are 
*never* goin' to recover...

> Dear Scott,
> 
> Depending on when exactly you were switching to German in your sentance, it
> would be EITHER in das fatherland, or in DEM fatherland, but never in der
> fatherland.

> and for the rest of you's
                      ^^^^^
Ummmmm... Sister Mary-Margret, may I *respectfully* and ever so timidly point
out that "youse," (as in "youse yoots is moiderin' the Deutsche Sprache.") is 
usually spelled *without* an apostrophe, and *with* an "e"...

> unwaHrscheinlich is spelled with the H
> verboten is not spelled with an F or a second T
> Nicklaus out

Reminds Yer Kindly ol' Unka Bart of the sign down by the Aerohydraul offices in 
Wiesbaden-Biebrich (on the Rhine) that read "Autowaschen Verboten."   His lady
friend used to Klep him eine, when he'd ask where on earth this "automatic
boat-wash" was located...