I minored in German, so why not I'll have a go: How about verb placement? Second position! Oh, except for questions and commands, then it's first position! Oh,

I minored in German, so why not I'll have a go: How about verb placement? Second position! Oh, except for questions and commands, then it's first position! Oh, except if you have a question word, then it's second again. Oh, but it's last in subordinate phrases. And I haven't even touched modal constructions or separable prefixes yet! Let's just put pieces of the verb all over! And, of course, ablaut preservation in strong verbs: "singen, sang, gesungen". English somehow managed to preserve this particular barrel of fun. Gender and plurals? Does it really make a difference whether I have to memorize how a word is spelled vs memorizing which gender and plural pattern it uses? Let's also talk about weak vs strong endings. "Ein gutes Bier" but "das gute Bier". And, of course, Mark Twain famously took an attempt at this also: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html