>>12417011I find that essay funny since it has the opposite stereotype of German from today: that words like 'Gewitter' or 'Schlacht' are too soft and cutesy for what they express, which shows how culturally conditioned it is, I suppose. But yes, I'm very capable of believing that German is die schönstes Sprache der Welt up until I have to worry about whether the verb has Ortswechsel and what it's going to do to the case.
