why python annoys me
Delaney, Timothy
tdelaney at avaya.com
Fri Apr 20 02:51:32 EDT 2001
> > In *English* the actor always refers to the subject as most verb
> > conjugations (what few there are ;) do not imply the subject.
>
> Please don't take me as English-centric. I would have normally brought
> up German examples ("Das verstehe ich."), but then nobody would have
> understood me :-) Even though there are more verb conjugations in
> German than in English, it is still mandatory to have a subject when
> you have an object.
Ha - *I'm* English-centric (anglo-celtic Australian) ... I just happened to
have lived in Brasil on exchange for a year :)
Tim Delaney
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