I won't expand on the numerous examples here. But these mistakes happen most of the time because humans don't parse every word they hear. Our brains are efficient, and therefore we try to fill in the blanks so to speak, and sort of hallucinate what we want to understand from a message. So even when we hear a string that has errors, these errors are corrected, and things do make sense. For example, there was a very famous sentence that appeared at some point in the recent years, Eine Kanzlerin, die Krisen kann. This translates roughly to a chancellor, who can (handle) crises. But the verb that indicates what the chancellor actually does with the crises isn't actually specified.
Other such mistakes are also due to the fact that reporters need to pack in so many things in so little space, so headlines sometimes become funny statements. The same goes with advertisements. There's this advertisement for a telecommunications and Internet provider, which said Mega Daten, Mega Preis!. That's an interesting use of Mega, because I assume that the author wanted to say there's going to be a ton of data, but will there also be a ton of price to pay for it?
In any case, this book was small, but definitely a very amusing read. I absolutely had fun going through this one. I give it 4 out of 5 stars, and recommend it to anyone thinking that German is a language that makes sense. It doesn't, sometimes.
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