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Re:The Awful German Language by minmax2020 on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:43AM (#44001904)
I would love to read "The Awful English Language" written in an alternative universe where Twain is German.
Re:The Awful German Language by golem14 on Friday May 16, 2025 @03:18AM (#44002602)
slightly offtopic: I would be delighted if Tucholsky had written something hilarious along those lines. But he didn't as far as I know, he focused more on the German language himself.

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Re:The Awful German Language by BlackFly on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:48AM (#44002466)
Is https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm not what you are looking for?
Re:The Awful German Language by DocTomoe on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:46AM (#44001920)
I'd expect a lot of moaning about how something is written and how it is spelled to appear to come from two different planets.
Re:The Awful German Language by polotics on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:04AM (#44002249)
I think you're looking for the poem "the chaos" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Re:The Awful German Language by 7373737373 on Friday May 16, 2025 @03:59AM (#44002855)
Re:The Awful German Language by brazzy on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:19AM (#44002320)
Ghoti.
Re:The Awful German Language by xiconfjs on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:36AM (#44002399)
Fish?