tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294141728297871688.post3501458383316449879..comments2024-03-26T07:09:21.701+00:00Comments on linguistlaura: German suddenly makes Esperanto make senseLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15599735346062899537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294141728297871688.post-58244303459686076402015-12-17T13:25:05.484+00:002015-12-17T13:25:05.484+00:00I shouldn't have implied only German does this...I shouldn't have implied only German does this, of course - thanks! It makes sense that he would do it this way. Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15599735346062899537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294141728297871688.post-35626115772898255332015-12-17T11:05:04.466+00:002015-12-17T11:05:04.466+00:00Polish and Russian do it too (no doubt due to Germ...Polish and Russian do it too (no doubt due to German cultural influence), and since Zamenhof was brough up in a multilingual environment, exposed to Polish, Yiddish and Russian already as a child (it's even hard to say which of them was his L1), the obligatory separation of subordinate clauses with a comma must have seemed natural to him.Piotr GÄ…siorowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339278493073512102noreply@blogger.com