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Another thought-provoking article DG, thank you. One small nit-picky point though - the footpath running through the BoB memorial site is the North Downs Way - I finished walking it earlier this year and was surprised to discover this very memorial en route. A few moments' quiet reflection ensued...

Amended, thanks.

unsere Zukunft würde sehr unterschiedlich gewesen sein.
Oh what a lovely piece of German. It would leave some schoolmasters salivating. Conditional of "to become" and both infinitive and past perfect of "to be" in such a short phrase. You love it or you hate it. In fact just the sort of structure brilliantly described in Mark Twain's marvellous little article on "The Awful German Language". You can take it from the title he didn't approve.

Working out German grammar on paper can be fun, like doing a puzzle, but if asked to speak it correctly, well, as John McEnroe said in another context, "You cannot be serious!"

What a lovely memorial. Very poignant.

Pedantic, thanks for telling us about Mark Twain's brilliant essay.











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