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Those stupid (germanized) anglicisms!

I was watching a late night show on German TV the other night and the host was interviewing a famous German actor about his new projects. It was then that he used a verb greenlighten, or to be even more precise a beautiful German past tense form of the verb: gegreenlightet. I am a huge fan of ingenious neologisms but does the German language have to absorb English words only? English words most of which have neat German equivalents. It’s always the same scheme: we take an English word that sounds ‘fancy’ and germanize it by adding appropriate endings. Boring!!

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The death of the umlaut? (video)

Jööööö, my musing on the plight of the umlaut. Including proposing a campaign to make umlauted letters part of the alphabet proper! The group can be called LOLCAKAOPULIA (League of the Linguistically Concerned, Also Known As the Organisation for the Promotion of the Advancement of the Umlauted Letters In the Alphabet). I think it’s kind [...]

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• Those of you who speak or are learning German may be familiar with the word satt as in 'Ich bin satt', meaning "I'm full as a bull/stuffed/about to pop". A word you may not be familiar with is sitt, which is satt's liquid equivalent, meaning one's thirst has been quenched. Makes sense to me! Hungrig - satt, durstig - sitt. Are you reading this, English language? los geht's!
• Ever felt like the deliciousness of something could not be described by the word 'lecker'? Well, now there's an alternative from downunder which will really get the message across: "that was bloody lecker!" (and no, it doesn't mean covered in blood.) NB: Please do not take the offence. I only make the Spaß! los geht's!