The German (language) (n.) cuts up its verbs, putting part of a verb down here, like a stake, and the other part of it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits one just shovels in German.
The German (language) (n.) should be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
The German (language) (n.) is a language where when a more literarily-inclined person dives into a sentence, that is the last one is going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
German (language) (n.) is an odd language in which the fish is a he, the scales are she, and the fishwife it.
The German (language) (n.) has a way of getting whatever is to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, into a single sentence or die.