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I searched and found "Gesegnet seien jene, die nichts zu sagen haben und den Mund halten!" which is the desired quotation but it's attributed to Oscar Wilde [1]

by kasbah 7y ago

I searched and found "Gesegnet seien jene, die nichts zu sagen haben und den Mund halten!" which is the desired quotation but it's attributed to Oscar Wilde [1] so probably originally English since Oscar Wilde is also quoted to have said "Life is too short to learn German" (though he did learn German according to Wikipedia). [1] https://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_oscar_wilde_1481.html https://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_oscar_wilde_1481.html

beagle3 7y ago
Googling this version (with a couple of words I remembered), brought me to a page with the version I heard before but it does not seem to be sourced: Selig sind die, die nichts zu sagen haben und trotzdem schweigen (And google also found something I assume is a singular version: "zu sagen hat und trotzdem schwiegt") [0] http://events-stg.clasadvising.arizona.edu/nichts-zu-sagen-zitat.html http://events-stg.clasadvising.arizona.edu/nichts-zu-sagen-z... , last paragraph at the time I looked.
codr7 7y ago
Tell me about it. I've lived here for three years, with a native speaking partner; but it's just not happening much. Before that I spent three years in school studying German, all gone. I don't like the language very much, I guess that could be part of the difficulty. It's just too damn complicated, the same way C++ is complicated.
- bArray 7y ago
  > I don't like the language very much, I guess that could be part of the difficulty. It's just too damn complicated, the same way C++ is complicated. Interesting comparison. I find computer languages incredibly easy to pickup. Human languages on the other hand have been much more difficult. I only speak English and sometimes even then my words come out in the wrong order or I forget words entirely (+). (+) I once forgot the word "and" - as a result I struggled for a day to speak/write many complex sentences.

by kasbah 7y ago

beagle3 7y ago

Googling this version (with a couple of words I remembered), brought me to a page with the version I heard before but it does not seem to be sourced: Selig sind die, die nichts zu sagen haben und trotzdem schweigen (And google also found something I assume is a singular version: "zu sagen hat und trotzdem schwiegt") [0] http://events-stg.clasadvising.arizona.edu/nichts-zu-sagen-zitat.html http://events-stg.clasadvising.arizona.edu/nichts-zu-sagen-z... , last paragraph at the time I looked.

codr7 7y ago

Tell me about it. I've lived here for three years, with a native speaking partner; but it's just not happening much. Before that I spent three years in school studying German, all gone. I don't like the language very much, I guess that could be part of the difficulty. It's just too damn complicated, the same way C++ is complicated.

bArray 7y ago
> I don't like the language very much, I guess that could be part of the difficulty. It's just too damn complicated, the same way C++ is complicated. Interesting comparison. I find computer languages incredibly easy to pickup. Human languages on the other hand have been much more difficult. I only speak English and sometimes even then my words come out in the wrong order or I forget words entirely (+). (+) I once forgot the word "and" - as a result I struggled for a day to speak/write many complex sentences.