"Denglisch"

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 06 1998 - 07:28:37 EST


<x-flowed>Many may have been bored by the current thread on learning German,
but it has already been noted that English is taught regularly in the
schools to almost any student. Now comes a report in this morning New
York Times about the growing intrusion of English words into everyday
German, something that once might have been thought unthinkable (back
when I studied in Munich in 1956-7 it was "Wirtschaftswunder," not
"economic miracle"). Here's the URL:

        http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/120698germany-english.html

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

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