Why Germans Don't Play Scrabble
Frustration with learning German
The longest German word?
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
translation: “Insurance companies providing legal protection”
(recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as
the longest German word in everyday use)
More seemingly-never-ending German words
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister
“Head district chimney sweep”
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän
“Danube steamship company captain”
Freundschaftsbezeigungen
“Demonstrations of friendship”
Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih
“Floor grinding machine rental”
Kaftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung
“Motor vehicle liability insurance”
Lebensabschnittpartner
“The person I am with today (partner or lover)”
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
“Insurance companies providing legal protection”
Siebentausendzweihundertvierundfünfzig
The integer 7,254
Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen
“Independence declarations”
“Some German words are so long that they have perspective.”
Mark Twain
QuotaBillsSilence is safer than speech. - Epictetus
Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman
Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
My husband's German. Every night I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me. - Bette Midler
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Toward the north, from there shone Frederick, the North Star, around whom Germany, Europe, even the world seemed to turn. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe