Comments on: Those Wacky Germans http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/193 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: David http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/193/comment-page-1#comment-157 David Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:02:05 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=193#comment-157 My favorite German word is "gesamkuntswerk." Say that one while eating a saltine, I dare ya. I believe the word, which translates into "Total Art Work" was coined by Richard Wagner. He better have coined it, seeing as I took a semester long independent study in Der Ring des Nibelungen... My favorite German word is “gesamkuntswerk.” Say that one while eating a saltine, I dare ya.

I believe the word, which translates into “Total Art Work” was coined by Richard Wagner. He better have coined it, seeing as I took a semester long independent study in Der Ring des Nibelungen…

]]> By: Will http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/193/comment-page-1#comment-156 Will Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:44:28 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=193#comment-156 It's so much more fun to yell the words when you say them. It’s so much more fun to yell the words when you say them.

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