Another contest: 'Good bad' AND 'bad bad'

[Conchita]

[Torsten]

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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[Conchita]

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:

More German in English

[Yankee]

[Prezbucky]

Our prez has the strategery market cornered.
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