LOL! Good read - I like Twain and I took German in high school so I followed that pretty well, and agree with most of it!
I think every language has quirks like that, the English language is tricky too. My boss's husband is from Mexico and still learning English and his homework is HARD! I don't know half the stuff he's learning! Present perfect tense...what? I don't know what that means, I just know if the sentence sounds right or not.