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  2. The Awful German Language - Wikipedia

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    The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. [1] The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language .

  3. Mother tongue mirroring - Wikipedia

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    In foreign language teaching, this basic human capacity is captured by the generative principle. In “The awful German language” Mark Twain humorously explained the difficulties of German syntax and morphology by mirroring long sentences in English. Although the main intent is satirical rather than didactic, Twain provides interesting ...

  4. Talk:The Awful German Language - Wikipedia

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    It was published in America. It was written by an American. It follows American capitalization rules. End of story. Yes, he makes fun of the German language and tears it apart. Okay, fine. Get over it. You don't have to try and violate the page and MoS standards. If you want to go to de and make the title with German capitalization, go ahead.

  5. Slowbeef - Wikipedia

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    Originating as a member of the Something Awful forums, he is widely credited as the pioneer of the Let's Play video format. [2] [3] [4] Along with Let's Play personality Diabetus, he created Retsupurae, a YouTube channel which reacts to various other Let's Play videos.

  6. Category:German language - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; Alemannisch; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Arpetan; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú ...

  7. Stupidedia - Wikipedia

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    Stupidedia (from Stupid and encyclopedia) is a German-language wiki featuring satirically themed and humorous articles. [1] [2] Stupidedia is the largest German-language wiki of this kind, with over 23,942 articles as of January 2018. It uses MediaWiki software, like many other wikis.

  8. Category:German-language websites - Wikipedia

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  9. Wikipedia : Reference desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 21

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