[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[cripplecreek]

LOL I love German.

Its like the Klingon of human languages.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kinda funny, but a lot of the Slavic languages sound that way.

[BenLurkin]

Hine klingen hoon schlargerfargerkite.

[taxcontrol]

LOL - thanks, I needed that!

[TheConservativeParty]

Krankenhaus (hospital) always strikes me as funny. I mean where else would you go when you’re cranky and sick, to the krankenhaus, of course!

[willywill]

if i’m not mistaken, the only ethnic people that the media feels its ok to offend.

[Gumdrop]

The German word for bra - kiepzemvromvloppen

The German word for Lomotil - haltzemvrompupen

German can be quite amusing.

[Charles Martel]

"In German, all the Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness. I consider this capitalizing of nouns a good idea, because by reason of it you are almost always able to tell a noun the minute you see it. You fall into error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig a meaning out of it. German names almost always do mean something, and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). When I was girding up my loins to doubt this, I found out that Tannenwald in this instance was a man's name.

Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print -- I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

"Gretchen: Wilhelm, where is the turnip?
Wilhelm: She has gone to the kitchen.
Gretchen: Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?
Wilhelm: It has gone to the opera."

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- Mark Twain, The Awful German Language.

[Dr. Sivana]

My favorite word in German is Sitzpinkler , referring to one who sits to urinate, especially a male.

[dfwgator]

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

[Fresh Wind]

I like this one...

Auspuff (exhaust)

[KosmicKitty]

If French is the language of love, German is the language of hate.

Ollie Riedel (Bass player for Rammstein)

Ich tu dir weh!!!