The German language, in full force!

A few weeks ago I blogged about the German language, and last night I came across a Quora thread wherein the question asked was "Why do people think German is an ugly, harsh and rude language?" Just the title alone made me laugh, because that's exactly what I wrote in my blog post-- harsh and guttural-sounding to those who aren't familiar with the language.

My favorite illustration of this is a meme that takes a word that has a similar translation in various languages, contrasted against the long, harsh-sounding German word at the end. Observe:

Hilarious, right?

Guess what's even funnier... when it's acted out:

Admittedly, the German guy does exaggerate his pronunciation and his ferocity, but it made me giggle, anyway. The parts where they got to the super-long words was especially funny. And I am not sure why they included Swedish in some of the segments-- THAT sounds harsh/guttural to me! So I guess I have an inkling of what German must sound like to non-speakers ;-)

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