When you literally translate German words into English, you often get some pretty funny results. Can you guess what these ten direct translations really mean? It may be a tricky language to master ...

This uncharacteristically poetic German word literally translates to ‘art mistake’, although you probably won’t feel like a masterpiece as you hop out the hospital on one leg. So ...

Words with 60-odd letters in them? Nothing unusual in German. Henning dissects a couple of examples and proves that German can be endless fun - quite literally.

Basically, it’s harder to pun in German when the grammar makes things so much less ambiguous. Jokes made with compound words simply won’t be funny to non-German speakers “Why can’t you ...

The German word for joke is "Witz ... to quickly perceive and express clever and amusing ideas. Something that's funny is "witzig," but we can't guarantee these 10 classic types of German ...

“Some non-words are funny, and they’re weird when they are ... This isn't a new idea: The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer proposed the "incongruity theory," which ...

More please! Flag this comment I like long German words-though my memory has sometimes a problem with them.... Flag this comment ...