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From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote:

> Joerg Wunsch stated:
>  % German is now actually swamped by English vocabulary, not only in the
>  % computer language.  It's already beginning to be embarassing, and
>  % English is quite often now called `Neudeutsch'.
> 
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>  > That's actually pretty funny considering how much english (American
>  > english, anyway) is populated with German words from all the German
>  > immigrants in the early 20th century.
> 
> Hey, some of those immigrants were my ancestors!  Several of whom, by
> the way, anglicized their surnames in 1918.  Wonder why?
> 
> Historians used to date old english texts by the ratio of germanic to
> latin words; I wonder how this free exchanged between the two languages
> has affected their ability to date modern documents?  ;^)
> 
>  > It's gotten even worse since I got back, with some americans still
>  > going around shouting "fahrvergnugen!" at one another. ;-)
> 
> ObJoke: What do you call four blondes in a Volkswagen?
> 
> "Farfromthinkin!"
> 
> -- 
>           "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com
> 

Let's not forget that English is a Germanic language.  Moving structures
and words back and forth isn't difficult.  Nice blonde joke, BTW.

Jamie Bowden
System Administrator, iTRiBE.net

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