Doppelgnger, literally double-goer, also spelled in English as doppelganger a double or look-alike. Delicatessen, originally a French loanword. Dachshund, literally badger dog a dog breed (usually referred to as Dackel in German usage) 7. It's the older generation that is left feeling alienated and excluded by the use of foreign words in advertising and politics.ĭo say: "Borrowing can enliven and enrich any language, but the word 'wellness' demeans us all."ĭon't say: "I can't help it – the Denglish invasion fills me with good old English schadenfreude. Cobalt (a metal), from kobold ore (German for goblin ore) 6. The streams of Norse and Norman French flowed into what we now read and speak sans borrowings. Its fine to ask for a word in Old English, but you cannot say that English somehow borrowed words like calculate, compute, and count from Latin or French it never did. Neither do younger Germans, most of whom have a grasp of English, or at least Denglish. Old English has been dead and gone for almost a thousand years.
I don't really see the problem, but then I would say that. Back in 2009, Germany's transport minister launched a campaign to rid his department of Anglicisms such as "deadline" and "meeting". Before the second world war, such borrowings were usually translated literally, eg Wolkenkratzer for "skyscraper".īut the backlash is new? Newish. a Korean dish of rice with cooked vegetables, usually meat, and often a raw or fried egg. Abseil(German spelling: sich abseilen, a reflexive verb, to rope (seil) oneself (sich) down (ab))the term 'abseiling' is used in the UK and Commonwealth countries, 'roping (down)' in various English settings, and 'rappelling' in the US. Germans have been pinching English words and phrases since the Allied occupation – jeep, rock, quiz – especially where no ready German synonyms existed. Some German words like kindergarten are so Anglicized that they are now considered English words borrowed from German. Is this a new thing? The borrowing certainly isn't.
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The Germans are particularly fond of pseudo-anglicisms of their own devising: "handy" for mobile phone "sprayer" for graffiti artist "peeling" for body scrub "showmaster" for TV show host. They've chosen all the worst ones! There are worse still. What sort of thing are we talking about? Examples of Denglish words include alcopop, outsourcing, lifestyle, in-house, download, lobbyist, terminal, brainstorming and wellness.
Hail to thee, my all-conquering mother tongue! Well, the Germans aren't so happy, at least not officially.Īnd what do they think they're going to do about it? The German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has just issued its employees with a glossary of 2,200 Denglish words and their German translations, as part of a policy to encourage use of the latter. I'm for the advancement of English everywhere. Some fear it will ultimately lead to a kind of hybrid German-English.įine with me. It's about the increasing use of English words by German speakers. Ooh, I just felt a little part of my brain die.
Something to do with Dunkirk? No, something to do with foreign languages. Appearance: English, surrounded by German.
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