For the AMD 2 assignment I decided to read "The horrors of the German language" by Mark Twain. I found it both entertaining and interesting. I knew that German did not translate perfectly to english but I did not know that it was that difficult to translate. It was almost impossible to understand what Twain was getting at or trying to say. The literal translation was also pretty funny because you could tell how different German and English are from each other. It made me wonder if it would be the same if the roles were reversed. If somebody was were to translate a speech that was written in English to German would it not make very much sense like the one that Twain did.