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[ElvisMiggell]

I wish i'd been able to do more German at school, but i had to chose between it and French.

[ADarkJedi44]

France and Germany...most intresting...

[ElvisMiggell]

Not really, besides English they'e the most spoken European languages.

[ADarkJedi44]

I thought it was Roumanian!

[Lord_La_forge]

Probably, there are more people speaking german, than french in Europe...

[Trejiuvanat]

I don't know about the European level, but here French is faaaaaaaaaar more popular than German.

[Lord_La_forge]

Yeah. That should be the same in the USA too..

[AdmiralFishface]

Right, probably.

 

I wonder how German got into the English laguage anyway.

Hmmm...

Probably had something to do with german jews running from the Nazis.

There was quite a lot of them.

I think many of the original immigrants into the US in the 19th century were German too.

 

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Kindergarten. heh.

[ADarkJedi44]

The few Jews who managed to escape from the evils of Nazisim wouldn't ben early enough to affect the English language as a whole. The 2nd choice sounds likely.

[Jahled]

A child of the 70's or 80's you may have to be...

 

To much talk around here! Find stupid (mostly Star Wars)stuff you must!!

[ADarkJedi44]

Back to the gifs.

[AdmiralFishface]

The few Jews who managed to escape from the evils of Nazisim wouldn't ben early enough to affect the English language as a whole. The 2nd choice sounds likely.

 

They weren't THAT few. And those who escaped were the RICH jews, many of them well educated and very intelligent. Such people come in contact with many other people, influencing them. Also, they formed communities, so their language didn't die out in the US.

And they wouln't have been too early. German never had any trace of English in it before 1945... In ten years of occupation Germany and Austria got a big piece of US culture and English language. Even after that, the USA spent lots of money so that those countries and their economies would recover, so they would not turn to communism.

[AdmiralFishface]

Sorry. Back to the gifs.

[ElvisMiggell]

I think you'll find it's got more to do with the fact that our royal family is part german... and language affectations tend to be a lot older than 50-60 years old. It will have come from trade in the 1700s and so on.

[AdmiralFishface]

Could be. I don't really know much about history. Might be any of the things listed.

[ElvisMiggell]

Well i KNOW it isn't the German Jemish immigrants from WWII, though they will have slightly contributed. Lexicon is something which usually take several centuies to build up.

[Jahled]

Woo! Can you guys discuss German inflences in English; the plight of Jewish dudes in Europe, and the benefit of the French language to the world or not elsewhere!

 

Talking, like thinking; like boiling an egg, ultimately must come to an end... in a region where words have no meaning!

[AdmiralFishface]

I'm done.

[Guest Scathane]

Sheesh! Get it together guys!

 

1. Apart from arts and science, very few German words came into the English language (or any other European language for that matter) as a result of WWII.

2. The Jewish people that emigrated to the US spoke Jiddish in their communities rather than German

3. Has it ever occurred to one of you airheads that a lot of the linguistic similarities between English and German (as well as Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norse and Swedish) are the result of the fact that they stem from the same source language, namely Germanic?

[Texas_Fett]

Thanks, Scathe, I was just going to post something to that effect. Anyone happen to remember the Normans and the Saxons? Battle of Hastings, anyone?

 

The German influence is much deeper than the use of 'Kindergarten'. 'Father' & 'Vater', 'Mother' and 'Mutter', etc. As Scathe pointed out, it's because both languages stem from a common origin. It then stands to reason that whole words would easily make their way from one group to another.

 

What's really funny about the whole discussion is that it takes a Dutchman and a Dutch-American to point it out.

[Guest Scathane]

What's really funny about the whole discussion is that it takes a Dutchman and a Dutch-American to point it out.

Maybe not... Germanic (or Old Germanic as it is sometimes called) split up into three branches around the beginning of our calender. The first is North Germanic, which is the mother of Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norse and Faerøers. The second is East Germanic, the mother of Gothic which died out as a language around 600 AD. And the last branch was West Germanic, the mother of English, Dutch and German...

[the_mask]

What's really funny about the whole discussion is that it takes a Dutchman and a Dutch-American to point it out.

just saw this new discussion between Jahled's gifs, but I thought who would be better to explain this, than you two ?

[Jahled]

What's really funny about the whole discussion is that it takes a Dutchman and a Dutch-American to point it out.

just saw this new discussion between Jahled's gifs, but I thought who would be better to explain this, than you two ?

 

Drawing on the power of Force, Jahled considered Dutch... and then German... and then French... before he got terribly confused... and fell over...

 

 

Seriously guys you really want to check out a gem of a site I discovered this afternoon; a data base of wav files with a huge Star Wars section... you PCs will never sound the same again...

 

http://www.jushhome.com/SoundBunker/default.asp?page=SW

[ElvisMiggell]

ooooh. Cool noises... might have to change my msn alerts.

[AdmiralFishface]

Ah, gut, gut, I hav prolonged zis zread's life even more! Yes, my vork here is getan!

 

Runs away laughing hysterically until he hits a wall. Stands up and runs away laughing hysterically, holding his nose