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'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 "ie." No matter where you see it in a German word, it will be pronounced "ee".<p>Likewise, the combination "ei" will always be pronounced "eye."<p>Contrast this with the scattershot pronunciations English has for the same combinations:<p>"Neighbor" uses "ay".<p>"Albeit" and "Atheist" uses "ee-i".<p>"Caffeine" uses "ee".<p>And so on.