Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "German reacts to “How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages” | Feli from Germany" video.

  1. Actually I'm a bit of a Germanophile in that I quite like German culture, art, philosophy and so on. I can see past the short Nazi Dark Age. As a non-German, that understands some German but not fluently, I am not going to criticize the language either whether you might think it sounds harsh or not (actually other than the masculine/feminine/neutral pronouns that always puzzle a native English speaker in learning other languages, this syntax has been only thrown out in modern English, just read Shakespere). I like the way that the Germans run their nouns and verbs together. I'll never forget the lengthy German word, "Straßenbahnhaltestelle", which is tram stop or station but in German literally reads, "street rail car stop place". I love the logic of this; What if the tram stop was not in a street? Whereas the short word "Zug" means railway train (also meaning; pull), since in English the train can be a train as in a bridal dress or past or future tense verb teaching a person, athlete, child or a dog (training) as well as the rail locomotive plus carriages.
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