Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/11/05, Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/17/2005 01:22 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> >> On 11/16/2005 06:45 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:
> >>
> >>> <snip>
> >>> And I fail to see how "Software und System Entwicklung" has anything
> >>> to do with the German language....
> >>>
> >> What, it's Swahili?
> >>
> >
> > Deunglish. Not particularly inspiring to great poetic heights
> >
> >
> ROFL.
>
> I'll grant you this point, if Phillip or somebody says that writing like
> Goethe or Schiller is part of their job description; otherwise it would
> not be à propos for me to comment further. :D
>
> But languages borrow from each other all the time, and on today's
> planet, since English is the international language of commerce, others
> borrow more heavily from English than vice versa (oops, there I go again
> :) ). Why, the French even have "le weekend" and "le parking", instead
> of "fin de semaine" and "stationnement des véhicules" (except in Quebec,
> of course, where they put the linguistic purists of the French Republic
> to shame with their diligence).
>
> --

I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English,
spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic
languages.


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