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jagguy Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 01:10 PM
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the french have a different word for everything !
no more "e-mail", too english ! check it out

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/18/france.email.ap/index.html
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 01:39 PM
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1. Sometimes the French Word is Better

My cousin, who works with the EU in Brussels, told me last month that an unemployed person in France is called a "chaumeur." In Germany, an unemployed person is called an "arbeitloser."

If you lost your job, which would you rather be?
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 01:54 PM
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3. well
As wellfare is far more generous in Germany...

The French have translated all computer terms a few years back. It was strange, as I was used to see the same names there and suddenly a "computer" was called a "micro-ordinateur".
Soemtimes I think it's a good move; German has been importing many English words lately; even new German words sound "English".

In the last few months the trend changed however; now french words are massively used (d'accord, svp) in Germany/German.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 02:47 PM
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4. Conversational Deutsch 101
To convert an Englisch verb to Deutsch, simply add -en. zB. checken, interviewen, testen... they are all used in the infinitive and not conjugated (as the long-standing French imports wie reservieren oder renovieren are). Ah, that Tower of Babel! ;-)
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 03:04 PM
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5. LOL, not too far off


As Tycho of penny arcade put it:
"German, it's basically like English. English, you know, spoken by a monster, underwater, into a walkie-talkie.
"
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 01:41 PM
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2. You just ordered a shoe with cheese on it and you want me
to shove it down your throat?
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