The awful German Language

22 Oct

My father, who spoke very little German, used to get great pleasure out of the way German allowed the stringing together of nouns into one enormously long, often difficult-to-pronounce word. He would have loved this one: Gummischuhsohlenfabrikantenfamilie.

The family, who manufactured rubber soles for shoes, is named Beer and owned a villa in Hietzing that, Christian Seiler reports in today’s Kurier, is finally going to be renovated and opened to the public. Worth going to see apparently and not just for its designation.

P.S. I can’t help thinking that Mark Twain, too, would have delighted in this example of the awful German language.

One Response to “The awful German Language”

  1. esauboeck's avatar
    esauboeck October 23, 2022 at 5:19 am #

    Love it! It overtakes Donaudampfschiffsfahrtskapitaensgesellschaft, or whatever that one was!

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