German is a bit like lisp without the parentheses. Complexity is built into the language and culture. I live in Germany as a foreigner, so I'm a bit biased of

German is a bit like lisp without the parentheses. Complexity is built into the language and culture. I live in Germany as a foreigner, so I'm a bit biased of course. But my observation is that the German culture and language are a bit of a reflection of each other. Formal German use long, complicated sentences with long compound words and complex grammatical sentence. This somehow translates into a love/appreciation of neat, complex processes. There's more than a bit of cultural bias towards that. Kind of funny if you are aware and see somebody going a bit OCD on that.