What a fricking language! The absolute precision and sonority are equalled by no other tongue in the world. German is simply the most masculine and cool Germanic language. Once you know the rules, it starts to make a lot of sense, unlike English. The only downside about German is that some Germans pronounce their Rs like in that homosexual and disgusting ape screech known as French. I want my Rs to sound like Rs, not like fricking sickening phlegms from subhuman throats! And also they sometimes don't finish their words! Think British English (the non-rhotic dialects). But then German literature is literally GODLIKE and it's worth the price of admittance alone, so it's all forgiven! Sadly the modern German person is a burgerized pussyllanimous bugman! Their literature should be the main focus, not the unworthy social aspect. Either way, this tongue is unparalleled. The thinking man's language. Latin of the 21st century.
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Le French R is lövely.
For you
>naga goes "German great"
For you
You sound upset.
You sound dense.
>German literature is godlike
Nope, stick to eng lit
>German language is good
Nope, too many genders and grammatical cases, moronic
>too many genders
It's not that hard.
Can’t decide if postmodern or moronic
Why not both?
Is this from a textbook for people learning German? Or some corpo guide for "inclusive language"? I can only imagine the example sentences.
>Ahmad*/in, hast du dein_/*e Miema und dein*_ Peema gefragt, ob wir* zu meine/r Tonkel fahren können? Wir* könnten auf dem Weg dahin dex Opmex besuchen!
This is absolute clownery, not a single person in Germany has any idea what those "words" are supposed to mean.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Niemiec
Not really. English is the natural evolution of German language. German is inflexible, it is archaic in some ways, it is too strict. Modern English is natural evolution of German. It kept the solid foundation of German, but took also the flow from French*. It is the best of both worlds, it also borrowed few things from other languages. It is a true masterrace of languages
French on it's own is the very opposite of German, it's all flow but no solidity, it has no foundation and it is just like hot air, useless.
English is a devolution in all every way, especially the American variant which is steadily contaminated with ebonics. A language for the plebeian mind. I’m glad I overcame it and found a greater beast to read in. Nothing beats German and only those who have truly tasted it know nothing can equal that feeling.
You can convey any idea with any language. Simple as. Yet, the fact some people can advocate so aggressively for German or any other "classical" language is simply a sign of ridiculous and midwit-to-the-core intellectual stubbornness.
You got it all wrong. English is simply filtering those who are too low iq to speak it, I am not talking about ESLs but people who were born and grew up in English speaking countries, who likely at young age even spoke good English but as they got slightly older they found it to be too much effort and conciously or unconciously simplified it to fit their limited mental capabilities.
t. fatty monolingual cope
What a profoundly moronic take. German is drastically more flexible, conplex and layered than engl*sh
>German is inflexible, it is archaic in some ways, it is too strict
I'm learning German, and gotta say. If you study the language it shows you why closest thing to a german soul is unflexible iron rod.
>German literature is literally GODLIKE
It is very good indeed, but German mind is too focused on abstract concepts, which it takes for objective truth, thus blinding itself to the incomprehensible and chaotic nature of the universe. This is the source of all the autism the Germans have had in their history: from Protestantism to Hitler's sperging out to the 21st century "refugees welcome" bullshit.
Germanic order must be balanced by Slavic common sense. It the two ever unite, there will be no stopping this juggernaut, and its power will reach the stars. However, the anglos and the israelites have done everything in their power to prevent this from happening and they seem to have succeeded - at least for now.
Western Poland and Eastern Germany are pretty much a union between Germanic and Slavic people and the result is nothing to write home about.
I don’t know about Slavic common sense. Slavs have always seemed like incredibly self destructive people willing to cut off their nose to spite their face. Consistently I see Slavic countries destroying themselves in order to “own” barely different other types of Slavs.
that is indeed very accurate (although nations of germanic or romance languages have also done that to a lesser degree)
t. Slav
I've always loved German, but the irregular inflections kept fricking me up when I learnt it at school.
Not gonna lie former english fan here. This is fricking hilarious watching english crash and burn. But in all seriousness, we can't let German be Anglified.
>Needs to say 4ch literature forum
>FOUHRCHAHNLITCHATURFORUM
kek
>The absolute precision and sonority are equalled by no other tongue in the world.
Quite possibly the least true thing I've ever read here. It's a messy, imprecise, guttural language
Filtered
I know german to a B1 level
Speaking German equals thinking backwards. Cope.
For both literature and philosophy, French is better
kys frog
Sorry your thread didn't go to plan
You mean, Schlieffen plan?
>The absolute precision and sonority are equalled by no other tongue in the world.
Ah! To haughtily be in my mid 20's again...
>15 year old edgy boy with superiority complex and insecurities about his intelligence makes a post on IQfy parading his age, superiority complex, and insecurities
>Dozens of other insecure 15 year old boys and autistic adults instantly reply
was this place always like this? please tell me it wasn't always like this
It was
>superiority complex
>insecurities
wdym, these go hand in hand
unless you're making fun of my choice of words and want to söyduel, in which case you'll be facing a qway ancientGOD
German sounds like the death throes of a lung cancer patient
You’re thinking French
At least 50% of this thread is made up of monolingual anglos who learn about history and linguistics from IQfy.
I'm German (came here from Syria in 2016) and learning the German language was a pain in the ass. Mittelfristenergieversorgungssicherungsmaßnahmenverordnung. Who seriously talks like that? Nobody. The German zoomers on the street speak a castrated version of German with a lot of English buzzwords.
Splendid bait
How much work does word order and prepositions do in German? How does it compare to Latin?
it's kind of a meme, it doesn't even come close to highly inflected languages like Latin
the reputation comes perhaps rather from wacky, but still regular, change in word order in subordinate phrases, as well as separable verbs, but there are still strong anchors regarding where things must be and preposition use is heavy
>kind of a meme
>not a intellectual language
>like Latin
anon, please stop scaring off the newbie hoes and kys.
Latin is the fricking meme. Not a decent work of literature in hundreds of years. And even then it was by necessity, not by choice. People chose the least romance romance language the moment internationalized literature actually became thing outside scholastics.
After that everyone who wasn't English or French spoke German and now everyone speaks English.
Language 1. doesn't matter and is 2. a big meme propagated only by Anglo "philosophers" and logicians, which is why seemingly only Anglos know or care about this discussion.
What matters most are moment/situation and material/culture. Just because Latin has essentially free word order and is very inflected (compared to contemporary IE languages) doesn't mean you necessarily do or even can express deeper, "more" "true" thoughts or construct concepts with/in it.
German was simply used to express most philosophy because most modern philosophical developments took place in then German states. German was simply dominant language in a region which was culturally dominant. The same goes for English and French.
These three languages, as well as Italian and Russian to a somewhat lesser degree, were at the right place and at the right time, though that wasn't accidental.
It was the only time and the only place for it to be so, I am not to indulge what is called alternate "possibilities" to the course of history.
To conclude,
Willst du den totalen Krieg?!
Germany is only good for it's insanely inspirational propaganda speeches
Knowing german is great. It's my second language (spanish was my first).
If you master (flat)german, you basically get dutch, afrikaans and english for free. Grammar-wise they are just a simpled down fork of german.