Why Germans Don't Play Scrabble
Frustration with learning German
The longest German word?
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
translation: “Insurance companies providing legal protection”
(recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as
the longest German word in everyday use)
More seemingly-never-ending German words
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister
“Head district chimney sweep”
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän
“Danube steamship company captain”
Freundschaftsbezeigungen
“Demonstrations of friendship”
Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih
“Floor grinding machine rental”
Kaftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung
“Motor vehicle liability insurance”
Lebensabschnittpartner
“The person I am with today (partner or lover)”
Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
“Insurance companies providing legal protection”
Siebentausendzweihundertvierundfünfzig
The integer 7,254
Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen
“Independence declarations”
“Some German words are so long that they have perspective.”
Mark Twain
QuotaBillsSilence is safer than speech. - Epictetus
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
German headshrinker named Sigmund Fruit - Archie Bunker
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Germlish: Training done using a mixture of English & German - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939. - Jimmy Doolittle
Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
45 caliber German Shmowzer - a 38 caliber German Floogle with a telephonic site - Archie Bunker
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high stakes Scrabble. - Dennis Miller
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas