Bitteschön, Spammer Schweinhund
Well, now I appear to be getting spam in German. Like most English comment spam, it ends politely, with a hearty “Vielen Dank nochmal für alle Details” But surely most American bloggers are not like me, with two semesters of German under their belt from the early 90’s, and thus not possessed of a vague sort of idea what all the commentary means. I’d hate to think of all that verbiage going to waste on bloggers who frittered away their time learning French. I’d like to think this spam came about because of my post on Ritter, Tod, Teufel, und Hund, but the comment actually came in before I posted that. So I think we can rule out a band of cunning Teutonic spammers, searching for the use of German in posts.
Spam is best ignore and deleted, but every now and then I just can’t resist sharing too. I just heard on NPR today that spamming has decreased this year overall. (shrugs)