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I know this is sacrilege because we're practically required in all anthropological/sociological matters to accept the premise that "all cultures are created equal" and its corollaries that all religions, languages, dances, customs, and so on are all created equal... but sometimes, one language is simply, generally better or worse than another. And German is a particularly bad one. Pronouncing its sounds distinctly is physically harder work than in most other European languages. That, combined with the fact that the range of phonetic variation that it really routinely uses is more limited than usual (at least in Europe), makes spoken German prone to melting into an impenetrable auditory goop, like what happens to most other languages only when spoken by somebody with an impediment or a mouth full of food or lingering effects from a dentist's mouth-numbing drug. It's also inefficient, taking more time to say or more text to write, unless you start amputating words, which just introduces structural awkwardness and ambiguity. And its grammar is no saving grace either, with "genders" that aren't used as genders at all and an almost complete lack of any regular verbs outside the present tense.