@jensclasen Once you feel comfortable enough, why not go and enjoy the story of Rhubarb Barbara's bar and the three bearded barbarians? https://youtu.be/gG62zay3kck

@jensclasen Concatenation Nation

@jensclasen jättihirviösanoja! \o/

@jensclasen Kennt jemanden der Eisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber ?

@jensclasen I always think of German as a language created not organically, like English, but according to specifications. So you get these structures that at first sight seem like a bizarre contraption, but when you look a little deeper just fall into place and you go "of course - it makes sense". But three genders though? I mean... 😉

@jensclasen Your Scrabble scores must be amazing!

@jensclasen I still remember that one flyer I once found at work advertising Wasserabrasivsuspensionsstrahlverfahren. longest word I've ever seen in the wild, and therefore my favourite

@jensclasen And you look it up in the Riesenmonsterwörtersprachewörterbuch.

@jensclasen @ryanschultz That was one of my favorite things about learning German. (Along with stacking verbs at the ends of sentences.)

@jensclasen Theorie! Kein Mensch würde so etwas sagen! ;)

@jensclasen Like with hashtags German would be #EasierToReadWithCapitals

@jensclasen Due to this we do like abbreviations. German isn't the language of giant monster words but the language of grizzly abbreviations.

@jensclasen not really a terrible thing. at least you know for sure which modifiers are acting on specific words.

@jensclasen Ich sag dazu nur Kurzfristenergieversorgungssicherungsmaßnahmenverordnung!

@jensclasen "German long words" is mostly myth. Famous word inventor Wortes^ Georg likes to use as much word as possible.

^ The theory here is that the "spiders" in the famous "spiders Georg" is in the genitive (i.e. Georg of spider).