"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
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