Ugly-sounding words can describe beautiful things

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | April 2, 2020 | Melissa Mohr, Correspondent

[dfwgator]

“Schadenfreude”

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[CommerceComet]

The German said, “What about Schmetterling??”

Dave Barry sums up the German language very well:

The way you order a beer in Germany is, you say: "I`d like a beer, please." Everybody in Germany, including domestic animals, speaks English, often better than we do. This is probably because their native language, German, contains very large words that it takes two and sometimes three alert people, working in shifts, to pronounce.

[Leep]

Yep, i didn’t know until i searched it on the internets.

[kalee]

For later

[Mrs. Don-o]

HA!

And "corset" and "girdle" have long been replaced by a ramifying, never-ending collection of euphemisms (the latest in my spam file being ads or "shapewear"? by "shapermint"?) but I'm told (by my brother) that the German is:

`

hinderbinder

[DuncanWaring]

A German officer, Friedrich Steinbrecher, wrote of a Great War battle “Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Mark Twain's essay on "The Awful German language" is hilarious. He tells of a man who needed two months to learn how to order two beers in German--Zwei Bier. But he had that down solid.