I’m going to have to try and put my hands on a Mark Twain collection. I just stumbled on “The Awful German Language” and it’s spectacular rantage, as well as wonderfully quotable. Quite a lot of this applies to Dutch just as well, and my German-via-Dutch is at just the level of quasi-comprehension that he’s [...]
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