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minmax2020
401 days ago
I would love to read "The Awful English Language" written in an alternative universe where Twain is German.
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BlackFly
401 days ago
Is
https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm
not what you are looking for?
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DocTomoe
401 days ago
I'd expect a lot of moaning about how something is written and how it is spelled to appear to come from two different planets.
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polotics
401 days ago
I think you're looking for the poem "the chaos"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
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7373737373
401 days ago
https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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brazzy
401 days ago
Ghoti.
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xiconfjs
401 days ago
Fish?
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golem14
401 days ago
slightly offtopic: I would be delighted if Tucholsky had written something hilarious along those lines. But he didn't as far as I know, he focused more on the German language himself.
https://www.eventpeople.de/aktuelles/eventmarket/ratschlaege...
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