Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by address@hidden)

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On 20/05/2015 19:19, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Except you're doing a ghoti Bernard Shaw on our sentence structure.
> > German declines its articles, so you can tell subject and object by
> > article, in English we have to do it by position *relative to the
> > verb*.
> German has other niceties, like
>
>    der gefangene Floh    the prisoned flea
>    der Gefangene floh    the prisoner escaped
>
> look at the case :-)
>
>
>      Werner
Das Zeit fliegt wie ein Pfeil, Fruchtfliegen mocht Bananen ...

I hope I've translated it right, as the original is

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Cheers,
Wol