This post made me laugh out loud. I think I know what you were trying to say, but it is obvious you used Google Translate or some such service to write it -- which is what you were accusing me of doing, apparently. 😝

The irony is that my post was lamenting how similar to English German has gotten in some fields, like the internet, where they have simply co-opted English words en masse and just put "-en" on the end to make them sound German (browsen, googlen, etc.).

Thanks for giving me a belly laugh so early in the day, though.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 

Because Deutsch is so much easier to spell. :-"

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 

They should have taken it as a compliment. Deutsch can be roughly translated as "sensible" or "understandable," whereas "German" comes from the Greco-Roman epithet Germania, which meant "savages" or "barbarians." It never ceases to amaze me that the German word for German studies is Germanistik instead of some derivative of the word Deutsch.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 

They should have taken it as a compliment. Deutsch can be roughly translated as "sensible" or "understandable," whereas "German" comes from the Greco-Roman epithet Germania, which meant "savages" or "barbarians." It never ceases to amaze me that the German word for German studies is Germanistik instead of some derivative of the word Deutsch.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 

I don't like how German sounds. It's such an ugly language.

Originally Posted by: Packers_Finland