Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)

Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by Symbiote on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:43PM (#12027758)

English had all of these, exactly.

Every child knows poltergeist, from Harry Potter. Every teenager knows angst.

The others are less universal, but I'd expect a university graduate to know them.

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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by smsm42 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:16PM (#12028253)

That's kind of the point - English imported them from German (or, rather, just uses German words). English does that all the time. Same with French - rendezvous, cachet (don't confuse with cache :), passé, etc. So French speakers shouldn't feel bad for taking words from English - that happens all the time, just this time English is more popular so other languages take from it. Before that it was German and French, and in 100 years maybe it will be Mandarin, who knows.

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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by eropple on Sunday July 03, 2016 @07:00PM (#12028020)

Where exactly do you think those words come from?

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