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The Awful German Language
Tupper, Frederick | September 7, 1918 issue

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The American of the near future will have little opportunity of exercising either mournful privilege, for the distilling of grain and the instilling of grammar are undergoing like declension. Indeed, it would seem that the dictionary is an even greater enemy to straight thinking than the distillery in providing the insane root that takes the reason prisoner, for an insidious venom hitherto unsuspected is now discovered among Teutonic stems and endings. The Germans have made dramatist William Shakespeare their own, transplanted him, transmuted him, and, it may be added, Teutonized him pretty thoroughly in the process.

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LANGUAGE & languages; GERMAN language; DRAMATISTS; GERMANS; ETHNOLOGY; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616
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