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Originally Posted by Eichhornchen
Well we've got our problems and you've got yours, like the word "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitan"! 
(And I do often feel sorry for people trying to make sense of our language) |
In case I wasn't clear I'm always a bit frustrated that I don't know how to pronounce English words when I read them for the first time. For example there is the word "sign". When I now stumble across the military rank "Ensign" I would assume that the "sign" part in the word is pronounced like in "road sign" but it isn't. And stuff like that's driving me nuts sometimes that I never know how to spell a word if I only heard it and never now how to pronounce a word if I've only read it.
And yes, we love to put words together that you would spell apart.
And don't get me started on our three different randomly assigned noun markers and the difference between casual talk "du" and formal talk "sie". Must be confusing as hell for foreigners.
