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Does every student of German learn one like this, as I did years ago?
"Donaudampferschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitanskabine"?
I may have some of the order mixed up, but it means(approximately):
"the cabin that belongs to the captain of the Danube steamship company".
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Hi Nancy, welcome. Where did you learn this so-useful little gem? 
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Feuerversicherungsgesellschaftspräsident
"president of a fire insurance company" ??
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Naah, that's someone who's trying to find the foyer of the building so he can try to sell something to the president of the drilling company.
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Constantinopolitanissachspfeifenmachergesellschaft (sp?) Union of bagpipe makers of Constantinople
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holdzumuntkeepzumfrumfloppen
(sorry, remember I teach middle school...)
formerly known as etaoin...
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Eta, no, honestly; mine was a legitimate German word
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zeitgeber (TSYT-ge-buhr) noun
Remembering my high-school German, however, shouldn't that be TSYT-ge-behr
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Any of you read that absolutely hilarious text by Mark Twain about the german language?
It's available in the internet, so you can read it for free, I just can't remember the webaddress now. But for that there is Google and the like. ;-)
It's really worth the search, it's SOOOO funny...
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> Any of you read that absolutely hilarious text by Mark Twain about the german language?
Yes, there are a couple of good musings by Twain - one was an address to some Austrian linguistic society. Good stuff.
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As if 'schlusselgruppemacher' was a stretch. Wanted a keyring while visiting Neuschwanstein one day and took a guess. [It didn't fly.] 
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