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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Twain described German as "the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars." Quoted in "German," Greatly Exaggerated, ed. Alex Ayres (1988).

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