Yokohammer wrote:Or, as a German speaking friend of mine once explained, they have wonderful grammatical constructs like:
"I threw my grandmother out the window a kiss."
I need to learn more languages just for the fun of it.
At the risk of sounding slightly (OK, very) pedantic the "my" here in German would be the dative form ("meiner Grossmutter") without the ambiguity the English translation has. Which does then lend itself to more variants in sentence patterns.