Is any language as weird as German ?

[HockeyDude]

No, English is much more nonsensical than German.   

[Ethelberth]

I am not sure whether gucken and Dutch  kieken/kijken are related. This word should be present in English too 'to keek'.

[Vasall des Midas]

I am not sure whether gucken and Dutch  kieken/kijken are related.

Neither is my dictionary. ("Kieken" being also German, particularly far northern.) It does think that "kucken" for "gucken" is due to influence from "kieken".

[anvi]

I like the German language a lot--I listened to my parents speak Swabian as I was growing up, I studied Hochdeutsch a lot in college, I lived in Germany for a year and a half, I've taught reading classes for it and I still read and translate things in it sometimes.  But it sometimes is fairly strange.  Any language that can allow for enough suffixes and abstracts to construct words like "Teilnahmslosigkeit" is a weird language.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

As I'm getting bored and being anal, I will point out that no language can possibly be 'weird' and by the standards of English, German most certainly is not when compared to, say, Margi or Warao.

[Insula Dei]

I am not sure whether gucken and Dutch  kieken/kijken are related.

Neither is my dictionary. ("Kieken" being also German, particularly far northern.) It does think that "kucken" for "gucken" is due to influence from "kieken".

'Kieken' isn't any  dutch  I'm familiar with. (though admittedly I'm hardly an expert on the 17th century or whatever.) 'Kijken' pretty much is the standard form. We also have 'schouwen', cognate with 'schauen', meaning 'to observe, to study closely'.

Interestingly (to those among you who like their Foucault, I suppose) 'schouwen' also a definite legal connotation.