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<v Speaker 1>Section eight of The Awful German Language by Mark Twain.

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<v Speaker 1>This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by

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<v Speaker 1>Kirsten Weber, Section eight, a fourth of July Oration in

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<v Speaker 1>the German Tongue, delivered at a banquet of the Anglo

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<v Speaker 1>American Club of Students by the author of this book. Gentlemen,

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<v Speaker 1>since I arrived a month ago in this old wonderland,

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<v Speaker 1>this vast garden of Germany, my English tongue has so

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<v Speaker 1>often proved a useless piece of baggage to me, and

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<v Speaker 1>so troublesome to carry around in a country where they

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<v Speaker 1>haven't the checking system for luggage, that I finally set

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<v Speaker 1>to work and learned the German language also s freutmich

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<v Speaker 1>dos dies zoist then a smo in ein Haupzechlich degree

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<v Speaker 1>herflich sign. Thus one of eine an occasion like this

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<v Speaker 1>zigin reide in the srahedes landesvorign he boards ausrechenzol dafio

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<v Speaker 1>habe ich aus reinischer for Ligenheit no for gengenhite. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean herflichkite, ou s rhinischer herflich kite Habeich resolved

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<v Speaker 1>to tackle this business in the German language um gottess villain.

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<v Speaker 1>Also the missenzo frindlich sign on felzei mich di interlarding

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<v Speaker 1>fon einoo's by English alvater hi unda. Then ifind the

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<v Speaker 1>dusty Deutsche is not a very copious language, and so

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<v Speaker 1>when you've really got anything to say, you've got to

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<v Speaker 1>draw on a language that can stand the strain. Ven

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<v Speaker 1>haba man khan nicht mineem ree de fustian zu vedechim schpieta,

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<v Speaker 1>dasselber ibazettes ven e zartiodinste ferlangen vollen haavenwan soolenzein hette.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what vollenhaven waden sooleenzein hette means, but

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<v Speaker 1>I notice they always put it at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>a German sentence, merely for general literary gorgeousness. I suppose

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<v Speaker 1>this is a great and justly honored day, a day

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<v Speaker 1>which is worthy of veneration, in which it is held

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<v Speaker 1>by the true patriots of all climes and all nationalities,

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<v Speaker 1>A day which offers a fruitful theme for thought and speech.

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<v Speaker 1>Oundt mineem freunde no minn frind den mins frindees, Well

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<v Speaker 1>take your choice. They're all the same price. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know which one is right. Also, ich habe gata von

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<v Speaker 1>gevisensign m, as Gerta says in his Paradise lost i I,

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<v Speaker 1>that is to say, ich, but let us change cars.

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<v Speaker 1>Also the unblischofile grosspretan and americana hiatsu zamingetrophen in burach

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<v Speaker 1>concord istah welcome and in spiriting spectacle, And what has

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<v Speaker 1>moved you to it? Can the terse German tongue rise

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<v Speaker 1>to the expression of this impulse? Is it front shaft spitzigungen,

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<v Speaker 1>shnatfa aunitan felzamlung infamilion eigen timikaiten nine oh nine. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a crisp and noble word, but it fails to

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<v Speaker 1>pierce the marrow of the impulse which has gathered the

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<v Speaker 1>friendly meeting and produced these umblik and the unblich veliaist

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<v Speaker 1>good susan good for the algen in foreign land and

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<v Speaker 1>a forei country in the unlikacha alist verlija heidelblga phrase

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<v Speaker 1>nentmann and a yeah frelich naturally a the ausicht of

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<v Speaker 1>Dame kernig stool maya grus ist geist lichers lopot. Because

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<v Speaker 1>these intistrop in balichim concord i'm glsen taktsufayan, whose high

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<v Speaker 1>benefits were not for one land and one locality, but

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<v Speaker 1>have conferred a measure of good upon all land that

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<v Speaker 1>know liberty to day and love it. Hundo t yare

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<v Speaker 1>fo rubo varndi England, unti Americana finder a bahiit zinziyatlichen

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<v Speaker 1>freinder gottzei duck. May this good fellowship endure. May these

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<v Speaker 1>banners here blended in amity, so remain. May they never

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<v Speaker 1>any more wave over opposing hosts, or be stained with

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<v Speaker 1>blood which was kindred, is kindred, and always will be kindred.

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<v Speaker 1>Until a line drawn upon a map shall be able

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<v Speaker 1>to say this bars the ancestral blood from flowing in

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<v Speaker 1>the veins of the descendant. End of section eight. End

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<v Speaker 1>of the Awful German Language by Mark Twain. Recording by

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<v Speaker 1>Kirsten Webber