"...a gifted person ought to learn English
(barring spelling and pronunciation) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,
and German in thirty years...If [German] is to remain as it is, it ought to be
gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead
have time to learn it."—Mark Twain, “That Awful German Language,” in A Tramp Abroad (1880)Monday, June 24, 2013
Quote of the Day (Mark Twain, on German)
"...a gifted person ought to learn English
(barring spelling and pronunciation) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,
and German in thirty years...If [German] is to remain as it is, it ought to be
gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead
have time to learn it."—Mark Twain, “That Awful German Language,” in A Tramp Abroad (1880)
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