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.That said, German pronunciation is more regular than English pronunciation. Every letter combination is in most cases pronounced exactly the same in every word.Take, for example, the vowel combination "ie." No matter where you see it in a German word, it will be pronounced "ee".Likewise, the combination "ei" will always be pronounced "eye."Contrast this with the scattershot pronunciations English has for the same combinations:"Neighbor" uses "ay"."Albeit" and "Atheist" uses "ee-i"."Caffeine" uses "ee".And so on.