The truth about the ‘awful’ German language

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What's your favourite German word?

The American writer Mark Twain wrote in his damning – and damn amusing – 1880 essay, The Awful German Language, “It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”

 

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Zicherheitsnadel

Ich

The 'terrible German script' (sometimes called 'Black Letter') is very similar to the typeface of the Daily masthead.

Is 'Kraut' a German word?

I like German

Fremdschämem- outer shame. What some of us feel now.

It’s Zwolf it’s Zwolf .... 😎

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

Rathaus

Haven't got one.

Frühlingsmüdigkeit = springtime lethargy (yes, Germans feel it too)

Zugzwang. Also the perfect definition of where we are on Brexit.

funf

Zeitgeist.

Strassenbahnhaltestelle

Kamerad.

Bushaltestelle

Zuruck

Achtung! (baby)

Ausgezeichnet!

Schadenfreude, followed by handschuh...

BethClarke8 naturlich!

Some years ago, I taught German, and I remember when Year 7 pupils learned the word for 'father' was 'Vater' (pronounced 'farter') and the word for 'dad' was 'Vati' (pronounced 'farty'), they loved it!

Xenophobich

winkelmesser 😏

Brunhilde

eichhörnchen - its a squirrel with a fabulous pronunciation

Scheisse- sums up the Telegraph more than adequately

Backpfeifengesicht.

Krankenhauser

BMW 🤩

Gusundheit........it is a beautiful word and we should adopt it, I have!

Fuck

Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

kraftfahrzeugmechanikermeister...😃

Kraut

Vorsprung

Lamborghini

Bergen-Belsen

Buchenwald

Treblinka

AUSCHWITZ

Danke

Mottenpulver.

Mingehousen

Maybe the German word for paywall, whatever that might be.

Hande hoch

Mercedes

Porsche

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

Tschüss - bye!

Schadenfreude...

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