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The Awful German Language by Mark Twain

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This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples of precisely how the German language is awful include the famed “separable verb” – which allows one to put the first part of a given verb at the beginning – and its second part at the end – of a given clause or sentence (which may, indeed, be very long). He also makes fun of the extreme length of certain compound nouns (which are created by tacking...

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01 - Section 01 02.01.2026

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02 - Section 02 01.01.2026

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03 - Section 03 31.12.2025

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04 - Section 04 30.12.2025

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05 - Section 05 29.12.2025

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06 - Section 06 28.12.2025

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07 - Section 07 27.12.2025

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08 - Section 08 26.12.2025

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