From: Edgar Krentz (ekrentz@lstc.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 03:50:03 EST
>Many may have been bored by the current thread on learning German,
>but it has already been noted that English is taught regularly in the
>schools to almost any student. Now comes a report in this morning New
>York Times about the growing intrusion of English words into everyday
>German, something that once might have been thought unthinkable (back
>when I studied in Munich in 1956-7 it was "Wirtschaftswunder," not
>"economic miracle"). Here's the URL:
Carl, it has long been a characteristic of German (as opposed to French)
that it apprropriates words from other languages. I was amazed back in
1963/94 in Tuebingien to discover tkat the word for "Plumber" was
"Monteur." We paid a "Babysitter" who was a "Teenager" and put ouir car
into a "Parkplatz," while wearing a :no-iron" Hemd rather than one that was
"buegelfrei."
And this was in the old French zone, not Aamerican as was Munich.
Here's to Denglish, which in its inversion talks about a "blitzkrieg," etc.
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