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

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On 20.05.2015, at 20:19, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> 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*.

Schweine fressen die Menschen!

Which one’s the subject and which one’s the object? Well, it depends! ;)

> 
> German has other niceties, like
> 
>  der gefangene Floh    the prisoned flea
>  der Gefangene floh    the prisoner escaped
> 
> look at the case :-)