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is a language that 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 Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from 'Disappearance of Literature Mark Twain

 should be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it. Mark Twain

is extremely difficult. Life is too short to learn it.

Life is too short to learn German Oscar Wilde

has the unfortunate effect on the English ear and eye of seeming to contain nothing but orders.

German is a language that has the unfortunate effect on the English ear and eye of seeming to contain nothing but orders.

is a language in which, when you start a sentence, you have to know in the beginning what the end will be.

When you start a sentence in German, you have to know in the beginning what the end will be.

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.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

is a language that gives an ultimate thrill in waiting for the verb.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

is a beautiful language as long as it is neither written nor spoken.

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