Farbe hellgelb, Link blau The Awful German Language Mark Twain ******************************************************** This is Appendix D from Twain's 1880 book A Tramp Abroad . Note that the German orthography is that of the late 19th century. **************** Deaktiviert 27.11.97 Status: File not found ******************* <A HREF="http://cadswes.colorado.edu/twain/">The Mark Twain Library by Alan Eliasen</A> ***********************************************************************// The Awful German Language . Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate . A little learning makes the whole world kin. -- Proverbs xxxii, 7. I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rar...