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The Awful German Language (1880)

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186 points nalinidash | 2 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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1. wewxjfq ◴[16 May 25 08:55 UTC] No.44003183[source]▶
I think German poetry can be very elegant and English poems feel dull in comparison. At the same time, the plainness of English makes it much better suited for songs. Lyrical German quickly sounds pretentious.
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2. pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 09:04 UTC] No.44003242[source]▶
One of the things that helped me improve German was Poetry Slam contests, they are still quite popular over here in many regions, you get poetry coupled with another German property, plenty enough sarcasm.