"Denglisch"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Dec 6 07:28:37 EST 1998
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
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad at yancey.main.nc.us
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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