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The Awful German Language (1880)

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186 points nalinidash | 3 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.578s | source
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DocTomoe ◴[16 May 25 04:27 UTC] No.44001832[source]▶
As a native German speaker: Everything Twain rants about here we attribute to French.
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1. mark38848 ◴[16 May 25 04:35 UTC] No.44001868[source]▶
I suppose like the general American of today, he has just never really learnt an n-th language (where n>1).
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2. GuestFAUniverse ◴[16 May 25 04:48 UTC] No.44001923[source]▶
Which gives us Hitler memes where they audibly says German words that are very similar to their English counterparts, but the /funny/ subtitles is just a Beavis and Butthead level joke.

Doesn't work as good if one has ears.

3. jkaplowitz ◴[16 May 25 05:16 UTC] No.44002039[source]▶
He actually learned German well enough to have appreciative audiences in Germany, but he also knows how to make amazing comedic essays on many topics. He did plenty about US-specific topics, and about French too, not just about German.