Comments on: Denglish http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:57:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: decon http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/comment-page-1/#comment-3838 decon Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:54:47 +0000 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/#comment-3838 language changes. isn't that what makes it interesting, too? language changes. isn’t that what makes it interesting, too?

]]> By: melancolia http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/comment-page-1/#comment-3833 melancolia Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:06 +0000 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/#comment-3833 oh i know what you mean, kay. i used to have an editor who borrowed a lot of german terms like Sturm und Drang to create this literary effect. as if it makes her more "literate" than the others. anyway, there are german words that incorporated pretty well in english language. like Angst for example. on the other hand, the thing with german speakers using english words is so unnatural. i cannot bear it, especially when i hear the kids utter "cool-e Musik" or ur-cool. it sounds so fake. oh i know what you mean, kay. i used to have an editor who borrowed a lot of german terms like Sturm und Drang to create this literary effect. as if it makes her more "literate" than the others.
anyway, there are german words that incorporated pretty well in english language. like Angst for example.
on the other hand, the thing with german speakers using english words is so unnatural. i cannot bear it, especially when i hear the kids utter "cool-e Musik" or ur-cool. it sounds so fake.

]]> By: kk01 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/comment-page-1/#comment-3832 kk01 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:53:17 +0000 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/#comment-3832 No. In Europe 100 million people are German mother tongue, 60 million English. Worldwide tops Chinese, 2nd place Spanish... The German "Angst" is now common in English, I think. an ambivalent thing... No. In Europe 100 million people are German mother tongue,
60 million English.
Worldwide tops Chinese, 2nd place Spanish…

The German "Angst" is now common in English, I think.
an ambivalent thing…

]]> By: Kay http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Kay Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:54:08 +0000 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/#comment-3831 Hmm, I dunno. I don't find this surprising, nor do I think it weird. The English language has such a big influence on our "non-English" lives that this sort of development seems pretty "natural" to me, actually. I find it more irritating when German words/words that are used in the German language suddenly start popping up in English texts, because they often seem pretty superfluous and only used for effect. I'm not talking about words that have been in use for ages, like Doppelgänger or Zeitgeist etc., but words like "verboten" or "kaput", for example. Hmm, I dunno. I don’t find this surprising, nor do I think it weird.

The English language has such a big influence on our "non-English" lives that this sort of development seems pretty "natural" to me, actually.

I find it more irritating when German words/words that are used in the German language suddenly start popping up in English texts, because they often seem pretty superfluous and only used for effect. I’m not talking about words that have been in use for ages, like Doppelgänger or Zeitgeist etc., but words like "verboten" or "kaput", for example.

]]> By: kk01 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/comment-page-1/#comment-3830 kk01 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:11:57 +0000 http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/26/denglish/#comment-3830 No... Denglish is awful. English or German - but no mixed attempts! No…
Denglish is awful.
English or German – but no mixed attempts!

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