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From: gary@softway.oz (Friend of Elvenkind)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth programmers and names
Message-ID: <1950@softway.oz>
Date: 10 Aug 89 07:51:48 GMT
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In article <663@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes:
>
>My name is indeed Dutch.  I have noticed this myself.
>
>I heard that Dutch (like German) has a sort of "reverse Polish" syntax,
>with the verb often placed at the end of a sentence.
>

Not quite.  I don't know about Dutch, but in German the main verb should be 
the second idea in the clause.  All auxiliary verbs however go to the end.  If the 
sentence is moderately complex you can end up with three, four, or sometimes 
five auxiliary verbs at the end.

What strikes me as an even closer resemblence is the way German builds long (huge!)
words out of many small ones.

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