My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Tue Sep 5 21:29:30 UTC 2006
On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> More years than I care to admit I still remember the nine German
> prepositions that take either the dative or the accusative, in
> alphabetic order--a kind of mnemonic.
an auf hinter in neben ueber unter vor zwischen
and then comes:
aus ausser bei mit nach seit von zu
this from more than 50 years ago, in high school. it might be the
last memory i can retrieve, in my dying moments.
arnold
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