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Thread #143371 Message #3309673
Posted By: Ebbie
16-Feb-12 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Who says 'Can I come with?'
Subject: RE: Folklore: Who says 'Can I come with?'
"throw the bull over the fence some hay... " open mike
Right. The reason is that German sentence construction is different from that of English, as is Pennsylvania Dutch (Which isn't Dutch at all, but 'Deutsch'); the sentence is being translated literally as constructed. The Amish have lots of funny stories that they tell on themselves.