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
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman
Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
The German is like a willow. No matter which way you bend him, he will always take root again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
Toward the north, from there shone Frederick, the North Star, around whom Germany, Europe, even the world seemed to turn. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
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