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   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to John F. Eldredge   
   Re: We are obsolete   
   08 Aug 14 09:07:40   
   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 8/7/14 7:52 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   "Loan". That's funny. As if we're ever giving them back.   
      
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