The Awful German Language
by Mark Twain
[This is Appendix D from Twain's 1880 book A Tramp Abroad. This text is basically a HTML conversion of the plain ASCII e-text formerly found at gopher://english.hss.cmu.edu:70/0F-2%3A2607%3AThe%20Awful%20German%20Language, with some further editing. Report errors to churchh@crossmyt.com; note that the German orthography is that of the late 19th century.]
Contents
The Awful German Language.
Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate.
A Fourth of July oration in the German tongue, delivered at a banquet of the Anglo-American club of students by the author of this book.
A little learning makes the whole world kin.
-- Proverbs xxxii, 7.