Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.
These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it. It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script. I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.