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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Dave Brueck fed this fish to the penguins on Tuesday 26 November 2002 
08:33 am:

> Ugh! Shame on any aspect of a language that burdens the developer this
> way. The fact that such strategies as the above have cropped up is,
> IMO, proof that the language is broken in that area. We don't say, "Is
> Tuesday today?" or "Is 5 your age?", either. :)
>
        Well, not in normal English, at least <G>

        I've seen too many novels that try to indicate "foreigner" by using a 
hacked germanic structure...

        Not alone Yoda is...
        5 your age is...
        Tuesday today is...

{besides Yoda, there is the Weaponsmaster in Lackey's Valdemar novels, 
the orientation supervisor in McCaffrey's Crystal Singer novels, and 
the agent(s) in some of Modesitt's Ecolitan novels}

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