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Ain't the German language hilarious? I've gotten to the point that I don't have to read the subtitles anymore. I understand SH3 German conversationally. But I can only talk to computer Germans with extremely limited vocabularies.
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The beauty about the german language is that it can be used to build completely new words by simply dragging one after the other. And the good part is that any german speaker will inmediately understand this new word
and its meaning. It also has very, very precise meanings, so no wonder it was the benchmark language for anything science related in the 19th century and a good part of the 20th
An interesting thing: Not long ago I was in a german bookstore and had the opportunity to have in my hands the same book written originally in english, and translated to german: The german one had a good 60-70 pages more
than the english. Reason? Because the english is a language with a huge weight placed in connotations and double-meanings of words and phrases, whereas the german is absolutely precise in every word. Hence, to fully explain the subtle additional meaning in a sentence written in english, the german translator has to use a copule more words.