Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

On Jun 23, 1:45 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 22, 2:22 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jun 21, 6:18 pm, Rudy <r...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 21, 8:52 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here are some quotes from an American novel of the year
2007 that show how also modern English changes, according
to the following rule: leave out a word if the sentence can still
be understood - lean management, lean industrial production,
lean language ...

the thing I really want (the thing that I really want)

This has always been grammatically correct in Modern English. The
relative pronoun is not required for the direct object.

But in German

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Following the English example, also German is
leaving out 'that' in some cases, but not in as many
cases as English.

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