1944: Oskar Kusch, Wehrkraftzersetzung U-boat commander

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[SaveFerris]

(Wehrkraftzersetzung)

So....he was hampering the Nazi war machine?

[Eagles6]

What is up with these Teutonic words?

Did they get boxes of consonants and vowels, at a garage sale and, just, throw them out there, haphazardly?

[SaveFerris]

LOL

Probably the biggest part of my ancestry.

Why use 4 letters when 13-17 can be used after dumping the Scrabble box?

😂😬😆🤣🤣🤣

[SaveFerris]

19 letters lol

[central_va]

The Awful German Language

--by Mark Twain

[ANKE69]

Your first link is full of errors and made up nonsense. For example; ...he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE.... There is no such thing as a HAUSE.

[central_va]

It’s a humor piece by Mark Twain. Deal with it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

https://uboat.net/men/kusch.htm

https://uboat.net/men/commanders/1.html (Abel)

On uboat.net, it appears that Abel is first, alphabetically of all U-Boat commanders.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

One of my favorite Twain pieces, especially when I was taking German back in college.

[Arlis]

A good Brazillian friend who is a PhD Nuclear Engineer was fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He was my translator when I spoke in Brazil. He is truly one of the smartest people I’ve ever known. A dear man of God too. Black BTW.

He got his PhD in Germany and before he could start his studies he had to spend a year learning German.

He told me that learning German was the most difficult challenge of his life. And he was tri-lingual prior to learning German.

[dfwgator]

[Bishop_Malachi]

I took 3 years of both German and French. I found German much easier due to its similarity to English. Also, words are at least spelled like they sound. In French, words have spellings that bear no resemblance to their common phonetics in English.

[SaveFerris]

heh

[DesertRhino]

Murdered by Nazis. And his commander Donetz skated.

[Campion]

“Zersetzung” is corrosion or decomposition. “Wehr” is cognate to English “war”; “Wehrmacht” is “armed might” or “war-might”. “Kraft” is power or ability. War-making-ability-corrosion, or (in English we would say) undermining the war effort.

[SaveFerris]

Sounds like he was fed up with Herr Hitler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kusch

[PLMerite]

“...he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE.... There is no such thing as a HAUSE.”

My mother’s maiden name was Hause. Arrived in America in 1770 and by the 20th Century it was pronounced “Hawz.”

[ANKE69]

Hey, although you don’t have a clue about a language, you posted a ridiculous, idiotic link to make a point!!! 🤣😅
Deal with it!!!

[ANKE69]

Oh please, this was a comparison to Pferde und Hunde. There is no such thing as a HAUSE. The plural word would be Häuser.
Has nothing to do with names.