Bummel durch Europa ist ein halb-fiktiver, satirischer Reisebericht des amerikanischen Autors Mark Twain, der erstmals 1880 erschien.
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache (The Awful German Language)
Original engl.: "I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a »unique«; and wanted to add it to his museum."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„Mit Führer zu reisen ist ein Segen, ohne einen zu reisen ist das Gegenteil.“
A Tramp Abroad, Kap. XXXII
Original engl.: "To travel with a courier is bliss, to travel without one is the reverse."
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A Tramp Abroad; Appendix D The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is. Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "[…] it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„Einige deutsche Wörter sind so lang, dass sie eine Perspektive haben.“
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
