German Language is cool :)
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Ten years ago I was sent to Germany on short notice to help out at a trade show. I was amazed at how much of my German vocabulary came back. Of course, my accent was atrocious... :sigh:
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delete this;Not long back from a week in Berlin and was also amazed at how much and how quickly my German came back. Apparently my accent wasn't so bad ;P Most bizarre moment - managing to communicate with one chap in a mixture of Italian, French and German - he had very little German and even less English; I speak English, can just get by in German, have a little French, even less Italian. Most embarrassing moment - staring blankly at someone totally unable to understand a word they were saying ... then realising they were speaking English (quite well too) ... erm ... my native language :-O
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Yes, but each of those German words is 37 syllables long! :-D (a very, very long time ago I had three years of German language classes in high school)
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I think I posted a link to this before, but Leslie is my home-boy so let 'er rip! http://www.ahajokes.com/eng011.html[^]
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Obligatory: German Scrabble[^]
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The American author Mark Twain had a slightly different perspective on the language... Mark Twain: The Awful German Language[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
