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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynda wrote:
> As to German, youngest is learning it now and says it makes less sense and 
> is a bigger pain in the arse than English ever thought of being.  Her 
> favorite example of dumb language rules is that in German nouns have gender 
> applied -- masculine, feminine and neuter (go figure) AND girl (madchen, 
> can't do an umlaut on this computer) is neuter.

Don't you have a charactermap for the umlaut?

I took two years of German in college.  It has totallymessed up my 
English as now I want to make everything a compoundword.
:)

Bev

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