almanca

• "life is too short to learn german" denir şaka yollu. meğer lydia davis improving my german adlı kısacık bir şiir yazmış ve tam da bu konuya değinmiş:
  
  "all my life i have been trying to improve my german.
  at last my german is better
  —but now i am old and ill and don’t have long to live.
  soon i will be dead,
  with better german."