The Awful German Language (1880)
English grammar is far simpler than German grammar. Eliminating noun genders, declensions, and cases (as English does) is a great simplification over German. I&#x27;ve never understood the need for noun genders and I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information.<p>That said, German pronunciation is more regular than English pronunciation. Every letter combination is in most cases pronounced exactly the same in every word.<p>Take, for example, the vowel combination &quot;ie.&quot; No matter where you see it in a German word, it will be pronounced &quot;ee&quot;.<p>Likewise, the combination &quot;ei&quot; will always be pronounced &quot;eye.&quot;<p>Contrast this with the scattershot pronunciations English has for the same combinations:<p>&quot;Neighbor&quot; uses &quot;ay&quot;.<p>&quot;Albeit&quot; and &quot;Atheist&quot; uses &quot;ee-i&quot;.<p>&quot;Caffeine&quot; uses &quot;ee&quot;.<p>And so on.