There is an old joke about Europeans discussing which nation had the most beautiful language. The Frenchman mentioned the word “papillion” for “butterfly”. The Spaniard claimed that whatever word the Spanish use for “butterfly” was better (my memory fails me on Spanish right now).
The German said, “What about Schmetterling??”
Thinking of schmetterling, when I was a kid my big brother convinced me (briefly) that the German word for bra (as in brassiere) was...
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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.