I thought Germans were supposed to be good English speakers. What happened?

That would be the crossguard, wouldn't it?

Thats easy as fuck, like 11 year old level, you'd only struggle with that if you're a dumb brainlet that never read novels as a kid. My English exam had shit from the 1400s and James Joyce

I never heard of the word roweling desu.

>One of the stereotypes about germans is unironically that they are bad english speakers
>Germans and french
... are two groups that shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence regarding English proficiency.
If you read the article and see what is required to get the equivalent of a high school diploma, but still think like that, you are a lost case. Oilniggers being way too full of themselves once again.

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You'd be surprised how few People read. I didn't know what rovel was, but one can see it from context.

Did you know what rowel was?

I had to read Dutch, German, French and English books. Smarter kids also got Greek and Latin. Luckily I'm dum dum.

A rowel is one of those spiked things on a spur
Don't know why they'd want Germans to know that though

We are just out of high proficiency, don't be so mean.

>I thought Germans were supposed to be good English speakers
But Germans are notorious for rigid and underdeveloped English.

Crossguard and hilt are the same thing, hilt is just the correct word

Never heard Roweling before desu

No they aren't you fucking retard

No we aren't.

But muh Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilt

youtube.com/watch?v=-RrEQ8Ovw-Q

>Well.....

>hostile Jow Forums virgins insult people right away

Well, it seems that he was right. Just not right to Insult you.

The hilt is actually all three: crossword, grip and pommel. I don't know exactly where that text comes from but it sounds very American to me.

ah this must be the new "advanced learning" technics that everyone proclaims as the only real learning.

When I'm in Germany the majority of people don't speak English. They are like halfway between South Europe and The Netherlands/Sweden.

I'm hostile because I care about grammar, not because i'm a virgin

*crossguard, autocorrect really hates me today.

Frisians speak bad English, I was in Sneek and this guy kept struggling to form a basic sentence and started using google translate

>some old fuck is bad at English so everybody must be xD

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I always loved to go with my dad on vacation because of his bad English combined with his irascibility when somebody didn't understand him. Once when we were in a hurry for a flight he was close to beat up a taxi driver who couldn't figure out what "TO SE FLY IN SE AIR" means. Based dad.

hilt is the part of a sword you grab
never heard of roweling before

They ain't. Everything is dubbed in Germany.

Yeah, he insisted it was just the crossguard.

i no speak English
you correct all

German so dumb

I just like the fact that he was the Internet 'n shiet secretary of the EU.

my dad is very similar, gets really annoyed if people dont understand him or say his name wrong
he's almost made a scene because he was carded for buying alcohol once too

Lol i know a guy that speaks exactly like this but he's an ethnic German in Brazil that's never left Brazil. His family homeschooled him until he was 14 so he only spoke German for 14 years. It's really bizzare that he hasn't even ever left Brazil but talks like this old German guy.

rowels arent wheels they're spurs, those things on the heel of cowboy boots

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It's probably an outdated stereotype now but 20-30 years ago the stereotype here was that Germans had a poor grasp of non-prescribed grammar. Also that they'd prefer to just use German words if they didn't know the English one instead of trying to rephrase what they were saying.

I would unironically punch all of you in your fucking faces for claiming Germans would be as bad as French at speaking English.

Due to an influx of new students Abitur is being lowered to retard tier most everywhere and I guess someone didn't get the memo.
'Roweling', 'hilt' and probably even 'halo' would have been annotated as per convention for sure. If you can't mentally replace them with a more common synonym or descriptive phrase you were thus given then you don't deserve to pass. Besides you get to bring a dictionary.
>The petition said some examples dealt with character development. The students said this meant the comprehension questions required them to “interpret feelings and relationships.”
So what? That should be well within their means at that point.
What's being graded is your ability to justify your interpretation and not how closely it matches the scientific consensus or the author's intention.

This, more than anything else, tells me that the passage is American in origin. Whenever I hear someone use "spurs" and "justice" in the same sentence it's because I'm reading something written by an American.

But what I looked up right now says it is specifically the Wheel part of the spur.

I am not making a point for either side.

>for claiming Germans would be as bad as French at speaking English.
for claiming Germans are as bad as the French at speaking English*

PS: I call the spiky bit at the edge of the spur "Wheel", that is a rowel.

Can a nigga live

It's Henry Roth’s 1934 novel “Call it Sleep"

As you know we have different education levels here based on someone's performance. A while ago I saw an interview about how well people spoke Dutch on a trade school. And they didn't even know what etcetera or percent meant. Nor did they know what arbeidsvreugde (job satisfaction) meant.

at least they're not totally failing to understand their own language like us

haha lol

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My point is not the usage of that specific word, but the more general association between the concepts that it implies.
Americans are big on spurs because of the wild west and it's place in thier cultural identity. Think of the classic lone sheriff riding into town to deal justice to a lawless gang. He'll be wearing spurs and the work will always make a point of mentioning this.

Diaspora is often more old-fashioned as they have not the cultural mass to develop and/or want to keep their heritage in contrast to the surrounding populace. They also don't make the changes their Nation of origin does, if they don't have their Kids going to school there.

Maybe, you are the native english speaker. To me it adds a layer of..well, a bit of violence? to the Halo of spikes as it describes the way it arches out into the sky.
Makes it a bit darker and fits the torch being a sword-hilt.

You fuckers could just try. If the Israelis managed you can to.

it's German false modesty
Old people here are such faggots that they would rather claim they don't speak English at all than making a minor mistake

I really wonder how German companies manage to sell products all over the world, probably it is because people are speaking German everywhere because English proficiency is a rare skill here. And every second shop in Germany only carries an English name to cater to all the tourists visiting Castrup-Rauxel, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

I'm pretty sure 'would be' is correct since I'm implying that the claim is incorrect

Same.
I went to trade school after having finished high school (for my job training) and the people there were legit mentally retarded. Our maths class was literally learning that + = Addition and - = substraction and there were honestly people who didn’t get it.
German classes consisted of learning how to write street names and holding a speech on front of the class where you have to know 150 words by heart and can read the rest from your notes.
Literal brainlets.
I mean I’m one myself to be fair but seeing people _this_ retarded was shocking.

KUT
MAROKKANEN

>You fuckers could just try. If the Israelis managed you can to.
it was tried and failed, people here are just brainlets

It’s a shitty gay language anyway
Just stick to English

You could if you wanted to, it helped that the Israelis mostly knew a tad from their religious duties.

If you started phasing out english in shcools over time, it would work. Your Society just doesn't seem to want it.

>confusing vocabulary with grammar
Brainlet virgin

>If you started phasing out english in shcools over time, it would work.
Great idea. That way they could go from being mildly irrelevant, to completely and utterly irrelevant.

Doesn't mean they have to abolish english totaly, dutchies and scandies speak excellent english.

Don't be salty some people want their forcibly removed culture back. You don't get enough shit for what you did to the irish, honestly.

The beautiful thing about English literature is that it is always open to interpretation. Violence and freedom do often go hand in hand, particularly where Americans are concerned, so your interpretation is well justified.

Maybe take a look at german, we have the advantage of Komposita. Slapping together word-bits until something nice is created is pretty fun.

Good night to you.

Our literature is pretty much about hedonism and death. Preferably with God, gays and Nazi's involved.

like any other literature, and English really isn't the most impressive language for this. Agglutinated languages are usually able to say a lot more. => Latin, Japanese, Korean etc...

Eastern Asian languages like Chinese or Japanese also have the advantage of using the Chinese characters that can be very ambivalent to the point of contradiction.

Special mention to Japanese, that not only is an agglutinated language and uses Chinese characters. But also has an alphabet that allows for phonetic word plays and many more (using a kanji just for its sound and not meaning etc...)