I'm pretty sure this is part of Brandon Sanderson's master plan to make humanity's culture so awesome that when we finally meet some aliens, they'll be so impressed that they will give everyone free alien-cake.
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from Regarding Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings by Beetnemesis
Before modification by guttering flame at 30/04/2012 10:52:48 PM
German words can be as long as a train station. Pronouncing words in Czech or Polish would make RJ's dictionary seem like a paradise and they're linguistically in your neighborhood.