Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25986915-20150113194129/@comment-24397663-20150115085502

Blutbadenser wrote: I think the "deutsche Geschwierigkeit" is a very good example. The word Geschwierigkeit does not exist, but it could. It shows eyactly how the German language works. and it is just more impressive than than "Probleme mit deutsch".

We Germans have our stereotyped ideas about English too: in every word there are at least 2 "th" and every second word is ending with "ing" and such things.

By the way: I was born in 1962 and when I was learning English at school, my English book was full of mistakes. I had a look at this book some years ago and was almost frightened to death because of these mistakes. so ... I just take it easy with the "Geschwierigkeit" (I think,  I Iove this expression) More impressive for sure XDD but uhh... it does gimme headache sometimes... my friend and I love the 'Unbezahlbar' and oh, Monroes exclamation "Gebt den Säugling her!"

I bet it was XDD But languages change of the course of time. Just think about our 'neue deutsche Rechtschreibung'. How many textbooks for non german-people do feature that? Very few I guess, if any at all ;-))

For my generation (I was born 1975) Carlsen released a new Line of English-Textbooks, just when I was 5th grade. Very modern and quite good and all, but I got hold of the older ones in our library at school. With Peter Pim and Billy Ball... you know that one? Looking back, these very funny as hell XD