Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

My philological studies have satisfied me that
    a gifted person ought to learn English (barring
    spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours,
    French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

                      -Mark Twain
                       "The Awful German Language"


Mark Twain was an optimist.  tftd

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