Speaker 1: Section eight of The Awful German Language by Mark Twain.
Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by
Speaker 1: Kirsten Weber, Section eight, a fourth of July Oration in
Speaker 1: the German Tongue, delivered at a banquet of the Anglo
Speaker 1: American Club of Students by the author of this book. Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: since I arrived a month ago in this old wonderland,
Speaker 1: this vast garden of Germany, my English tongue has so
Speaker 1: often proved a useless piece of baggage to me, and
Speaker 1: so troublesome to carry around in a country where they
Speaker 1: haven't the checking system for luggage, that I finally set
Speaker 1: to work and learned the German language also s freutmich
Speaker 1: dos dies zoist then a smo in ein Haupzechlich degree
Speaker 1: herflich sign. Thus one of eine an occasion like this
Speaker 1: zigin reide in the srahedes landesvorign he boards ausrechenzol dafio
Speaker 1: habe ich aus reinischer for Ligenheit no for gengenhite. No,
Speaker 1: I mean herflichkite, ou s rhinischer herflich kite Habeich resolved
Speaker 1: to tackle this business in the German language um gottess villain.
Speaker 1: Also the missenzo frindlich sign on felzei mich di interlarding
Speaker 1: fon einoo's by English alvater hi unda. Then ifind the
Speaker 1: dusty Deutsche is not a very copious language, and so
Speaker 1: when you've really got anything to say, you've got to
Speaker 1: draw on a language that can stand the strain. Ven
Speaker 1: haba man khan nicht mineem ree de fustian zu vedechim schpieta,
Speaker 1: dasselber ibazettes ven e zartiodinste ferlangen vollen haavenwan soolenzein hette.
Speaker 1: I don't know what vollenhaven waden sooleenzein hette means, but
Speaker 1: I notice they always put it at the end of
Speaker 1: a German sentence, merely for general literary gorgeousness. I suppose
Speaker 1: this is a great and justly honored day, a day
Speaker 1: which is worthy of veneration, in which it is held
Speaker 1: by the true patriots of all climes and all nationalities,
Speaker 1: A day which offers a fruitful theme for thought and speech.
Speaker 1: Oundt mineem freunde no minn frind den mins frindees, Well
Speaker 1: take your choice. They're all the same price. I don't
Speaker 1: know which one is right. Also, ich habe gata von
Speaker 1: gevisensign m, as Gerta says in his Paradise lost i I,
Speaker 1: that is to say, ich, but let us change cars.
Speaker 1: Also the unblischofile grosspretan and americana hiatsu zamingetrophen in burach
Speaker 1: concord istah welcome and in spiriting spectacle, And what has
Speaker 1: moved you to it? Can the terse German tongue rise
Speaker 1: to the expression of this impulse? Is it front shaft spitzigungen,
Speaker 1: shnatfa aunitan felzamlung infamilion eigen timikaiten nine oh nine. This
Speaker 1: is a crisp and noble word, but it fails to
Speaker 1: pierce the marrow of the impulse which has gathered the
Speaker 1: friendly meeting and produced these umblik and the unblich veliaist
Speaker 1: good susan good for the algen in foreign land and
Speaker 1: a forei country in the unlikacha alist verlija heidelblga phrase
Speaker 1: nentmann and a yeah frelich naturally a the ausicht of
Speaker 1: Dame kernig stool maya grus ist geist lichers lopot. Because
Speaker 1: these intistrop in balichim concord i'm glsen taktsufayan, whose high
Speaker 1: benefits were not for one land and one locality, but
Speaker 1: have conferred a measure of good upon all land that
Speaker 1: know liberty to day and love it. Hundo t yare
Speaker 1: fo rubo varndi England, unti Americana finder a bahiit zinziyatlichen
Speaker 1: freinder gottzei duck. May this good fellowship endure. May these
Speaker 1: banners here blended in amity, so remain. May they never
Speaker 1: any more wave over opposing hosts, or be stained with
Speaker 1: blood which was kindred, is kindred, and always will be kindred.
Speaker 1: Until a line drawn upon a map shall be able
Speaker 1: to say this bars the ancestral blood from flowing in
Speaker 1: the veins of the descendant. End of section eight. End
Speaker 1: of the Awful German Language by Mark Twain. Recording by
Speaker 1: Kirsten Webber