Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 07:04:02 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Testimonial Message-ID: <14968.874159442@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:13:22 %2B0200." <19970913151322.NK52478@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> seen 10 years ago was the Russian spelling of BASIC. 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'. 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. It's gotten even worse since I got back, with some americans still going around shouting "fahrvergnugen!" at one another. ;-) Jordan
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