Why Germans appear  tougher than Englishmen
(with acknowledgements to Al Murray)

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Germans appear tougher than Englishmen, because when an Englishman stubs his toe he will say "Ouch, I hurt by damn toe!" while a German will say nothing.

The reason for this is that when an Englishman stubs his toe it hurts, so he says
"Ouch I hurt my damn toe!"

When a German stubs his toe it hurts too, but before he can say anything he has to think:

Let's see, the basic sentence is "Ach, ich habe mein verdammt Zeh wehgetan" but "Zeh" is masculine and "mein" follows the rule for the indefinite article so the determiner should be meinen. OK, so the word "verdammt" is an adjective for the noun "Zeh" and the toe is the thing that has been hurt so the noun takes the accusative case and I've already decided that the noun is masculine and follows the rule for the indefinite article so the adjective ending will be "en". So the complete sentence will be "Ach, ich habe meinen verdammten Zeh wehgetan".

But by the time he has worked all this out the German realises that his toe doesn't hurt any more so he doesn't say anything after all.

And that's why Germans appear tougher than Englishmen.