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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5357 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 18 30 December 2010 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Article in UK Independent newspaper. Protecting the German language from English
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| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6111 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 18 30 December 2010 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Excellent to see this happening.
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| litovec Tetraglot Groupie Switzerland lingvometer.com Joined 4941 days ago 42 posts - 60 votes Speaks: German, Russian, French, English | Message 4 of 18 30 December 2010 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Denglish? As German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle once said, "The Aufschwung is da!"
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5576 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 5 of 18 30 December 2010 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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So glad to hear that this is happening. Fantastic - my friends and I used to go mad in classes when we'd see or hear English words in German and we knew that the language had perfectly good native words which could be used instead. My friend told me about an occasion once when he went to Saarbrücken for an Esperanto conference. He walked past a shop which was holding a sale. The display in the shop said "Sale!" in big letters in the window and at the bottom, in much smaller letters, it said "Verkauf". Little things like that drive me mad. Edited by LanguageSponge on 30 December 2010 at 6:44pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tropi Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 5241 days ago 67 posts - 87 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 6 of 18 30 December 2010 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's just one ministry, so this won't change much. Although I'd rather use "real" German words than "imported" ones, "Klapprechner" for Laptop is a joke. I never heard anyone using this term.
But as Judane said: It won't work. At least not that way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4940 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 18 30 December 2010 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
The only way it could possibly work is to cut off all cultural references to English, American, British or other. That's not likely to happen. Too much international trade going on with these nations, and let's not even talk of American and British TV programming. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5130 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 8 of 18 30 December 2010 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Me neither. Among the worst offenders are German ad agencies who often manage to convince their clients to accept Denglish ads, even though the target audience usually doesn't understand them as several studies have shown. In that respect German is almost as bad as Japanese where nonsense English product names are rampant. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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