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by 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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Is https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm not what you are looking for?
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.
I think you're looking for the poem "the chaos" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Ghoti.
Fish?
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.

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