Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testimonial Message-ID: <199709161451.KAA03889@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <199709160355.VAA00395@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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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 Abusenet: The Misinformation Superhighway
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