…but must admit this is very true.
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LOL – What does it say about those of us who were not natives but learned to speak it?
Reminds me of a book I read a little while ago – “the unfolding of language,” which tries to explain both how and why languages keep evolving, and people of every generation think that it’s nothing but corruption and decay among the youth WRT how they speak, and how all these different things stem from common ancestral languages. Fascinating stuff if you like language(s).
Leaving a store with my teenager once, she asked what language the shop owner had been speaking with one of the other customers. When I told her German (we have a German-American School in town, so a sizable German immigrant population), she said, “But it didn’t sound angry!” I couldn’t figure out how she’d gotten that impression about the German language until I realized most of her prior experience in hearing spoken German was footage of Hitler from documentaries.
As a native-born German and naturalized American, I concur. 😀
German is pretty infamous for compound nouns, which can be strung together without punishment. Thus, Kugelschreiber makes perfect sense: Ballwriter!!! 😀 And the Schildkröte is a toad with a shield, logisch!
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About 20 years ago I went to the National Air & Space Museum. They had a great WW2 exhibit, including a Me109 that you could look down on from a platform. I remember that there was a word printed on the wing that was at least 50 letters long, and saying to Dad something to the effect of, “WTF does that mean?” (but I didn’t phrase it quite that way, valuing my teeth). He looked at it for a minute or two and said that it probably meant something like, “don’t walk on the wing.” But I’ll never forget his comment: “You know that this is why they lost the war, don’t you? They were too busy reading this stuff to pay attention to the Mustangs that were busy raiding the airfield.” It fit in nicely with a lesson he learned in his time in the Navy – the only reason we win wars is because the other side is even dumber and less efficient than we are.