"The information war for Ukraine" - Satirical German program "Die Anstalt" (Eng Subs)

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3. Thanks for making me aware of this show.

German humour

The peculiarities of German sentence construction simply rule out the lazy set-ups that British comics rely on ...

There is less room for doubt in German because of the language's infinitely extendable compound words. In English we surround a noun with adjectives to try to clarify it. In German, they merely bolt more words on to an existing word. Thus a federal constitutional court, which in English exists as three weak fragments, becomes Bundesverfassungsgericht, a vast impregnable structure that is difficult to penetrate linguistically, like that Nazi castle in Where Eagles Dare. The German language provides fully functional clarity. English humour thrives on confusion.