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 #32 (permalink) Sun May 07, 2006 21:26 pm German words in the American language |
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Wow, this thread is turning into one of the best discussions we've recently had. It also reminds me that Jamie had written a short article on German words in American English called Americans and the "Oberfest".
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| #33 (permalink) Sun May 06, 2007 16:22 pm Another contest: 'Good bad' AND 'bad bad' |
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Just thought I'd resurrect this thread with another loanword from German: sprachgef?hl (which can be spelt with or without umlaut). This is a kind of sixth sense many of us long for and a few others are lucky enough to be born with; something all good writers should have -- it's 'a feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate'.
:!: Note the example sentence given by WordNet®:
an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language; "Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl".
PS: Oops, I've just noticed that the thread started with a different subject and took this turn along the way, more exactly on the second page.
PPS: Meanwhile I've found another related thread:
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| #34 (permalink) Sun May 06, 2007 17:29 pm Another contest: 'Good bad' AND 'bad bad' |
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| Conchita wrote: |
| "Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl". |
On the other hand, it might be argued that Bush has created plenty of sprachgefuhl. After all, "Bushism" has its very own entry in Wikipedia, doesn't it? One should not misunderestimate (!) Dubya's command of language (or whatever it is that he regularly spews forth). Perhaps Bushisms will one day spawn a whole new language known as "Bushese". 8)
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| #35 (permalink) Wed May 09, 2007 23:46 pm Another contest: 'Good bad' AND 'bad bad' |
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Our prez has the strategery market cornered.
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