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The Awful German Language (1880)

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187 points nalinidash | 2 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.016s | source
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chilldsgn ◴[16 May 25 06:07 UTC] No.44002271[source]▶
I absolutely love German, it is one of my favourite languages, there's such beauty in it. I am not a native speaker, but enjoy studying it. I am a native Afrikaans speaker and I see so many similarities between the two, which I find intriguing.
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submeta ◴[16 May 25 06:58 UTC] No.44002508[source]▶
I am a native speaker. And I find German to be a very ugly language. Pronounciation wise. Compared to French or English. It sounds like someone is constantly having a quarrel with you.
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1. chilldsgn ◴[16 May 25 07:05 UTC] No.44002533[source]▶
I feel the same about Afrikaans, ugly and harsh as hell :D
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2. pixelpoet ◴[16 May 25 07:10 UTC] No.44002563[source]▶
I speak both and to me Dutch is the super harsh spitty one, compared to German and Afrikaans it's not even close!