I’m sort of dabbling in the German language so I can attempt to follow along, or at least, figure out what’s going on in a conversation.

Last night, I finally got around to asking Joe, my co-worker and German-phile, about word order in a sentence.  He explained it to me and now things are sort of making more sense.

Verbs at the end of a sentence?!

Anyway, he told me to read and look up Mark Twain’s “The Awful German Language” essay—a playful/satirical look at the language, and I can’t help but feel relieved that someone out there can empathize with my confusion.

The essay, however, I also found very educational!