AMD 5

For AMD 5 this week, I read the Denglisch article on wikipedia. This article was actually really interesting because speaking Denglisch on accident is a frequent problem of mine. When they were talking about the Deppenapostroph - the idiot's apostrophe - this reminded me of my problem! I normally do not have a hard time remember words, spelling and the meanings behind them, but for some reason its more difficult for me to be able to decipher whether a word is masculine/feminine or what the plural form of the word is. I am so used to english where you can simply add an "s" with an apostrophe if the word is possessive, and then you're all set! It is really easy, but with German there can be endings such as -n, -en, -e, -er, and sometimes -ern. It can be rather difficult to memorize all of the aspects to one word! So I definitely see myself making the Deppenapostroph mistake. What really surprised me about the article was the effect that English has had on the German language. The german language is so straight forward and means exactly what the word is saying, like a compound word in english but just more in depth. For example, German has words such as Nachtisch can be broken up in this way, nach meaning after and tisch meaning table, this literally says "after table" but where do you eat dinner? On a table. Then what comes after dinner? Dessert. Thats right! So in my eyes I always thought as german as being sort of an outlier. English is so obscure and there are so many rules and cheats and things that change the course of the language, then the love languages (i.e. French and Spanish) are pretty straight forward and very similar yet they have so tenses and rules as well. But german, things such as the compound words "sind logische", if you know the make up to any of the parts of the word, it is more likely than not that you will be able to guess the meaning of it!