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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.              --        Sea Wasp        /^\        ;;;        Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com Blog:       http://seawasp.livejournal.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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