Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Path: netcom.com!gooley From: gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) Subject: Re: anti-german arguments Message-ID: Organization: Dostoyevskian Characters, plc References: <3op6ui$gco@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <3p09u7$1n1@hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 21:53:17 GMT In article <3p09u7$1n1@hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de> oehlsen@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Arne Oehlsen) writes: > >ok guys >to bring it back to the point >this thread is not about iceland, it is not about making wine >in french >it is just about us stupid germans >sorry for behaving like a typical german >but justice is not be done (rage against the machine) Germans have very long intestines. That means that they fart a lot and that their sweat smells worse than most people's. It also gives them a tendency towards literary talent, but most of them write in German. The German language doesn't have enough words in it. It's got too few sets of those near-synonyms essential for precision, for saying EXACTLY what you mean. Germans are borrowing words from various languages, especially English, to make up for this (look at any German periodical), which shows that they have enough sense to realize that there's a problem, but also that they're too insecure and uninventive to come up with their own damned words for things. Also, the loan-words are mostly jargon and trash -- they aren't the extra words that the language so sorely needs. German also encourages those sesquipedalian run-together words, which seem to be having a pernicious influence on other languages. If Germans weren't such lazy swine, they'd give up their language. Instead they're using that literary talent that comes with their long intestines to write in German. Mark., my mother's German, but at least she has French and Jewish ancestors gooley@netcom.com