Roland of Karkin’s Reviews > The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism > Status Update

a german does not ramble. instead they write long nested clauses, qualifiers inside qualifies, latin phrases with translations right after, and whole lot of a nonsense that gives his writing a very bureaucratic ethos.

often, someone who speaks mandarin or arabic will claim that their language is uniquely beautiful— i’ve always though this is kind of retarded; german however may be uniquely unbeautiful