Yesterday I sat with a noble, educated, no bawdy jokes as fine jokes averse man together, the knowledge and awareness of linguistic nuances and registers as I at least want to call extraordinary.
So we came for the German language as such or the present condition and Behuf same. A dispute arose. Jovial, the beers, but committed, violent, discharged directly.
He said the complexity of the German language is untenable; Conjunctive, complex sentence structure, it was yesterday; no longer wanted to learn something; hardly any German, foreigners, immigrants certainly not; no wonder it is that English has become because of its simple grammatical structure, world language; one has to face facts and adapt in this direction; it was now times the way of the world. I fight another, even to want to start a renaissance of upscale German language, a futile, if not ridiculous, though perhaps noble, but clearly lost, senseless fight. (more ...)
