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   John F. Eldredge to Dirk van den Boom   
   Re: We are obsolete   
   07 Aug 14 23:52:44   
   
   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:34:58 +0200, Dirk van den Boom wrote:   
      
   > Am 06.08.2014 05:43, schrieb Christopher J. Henrich:   
   >   
   >> For me the chief interest of that page was the number of English words   
   >> that have been imported unchanged into German.   
   >   
   > That's more and more the case. Germanization of English terms is common   
   > practice, especially in TV. Terrible results, but it seems that there's   
   > no way back.   
      
   Turn about fair play.  English has loan-words from virtually every   
   language on the planet, including German.   
      
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