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Re:“Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist ... by eru on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:05AM (#15771021)
It might feel a bit weird to a German speaker, but English is their language and if they want to add to it, let them pick whatever source of inspiration they want.

A bigger bug bear for me is the English pronunciation of French loanwords like accessoire. (And I do wonder how English speakers actually pronounce Sprachgefuhl. They probably mangle beyond recognition.)

Re:“Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist ... by arghwhat on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:35AM (#15771105)
Heh, loan words tend to fall into 3 categories:

1. Original pronunciation, but entirely different meaning 2. Original meaning, but entirely different pronunciation 3. Neither pronunciation nor meaning has anything to do with the original, but it's still spelled the same.

I like Japanese. They do #2 out of strict necessity due to their very limited sounds, and shorten the result so that we can't easily recognize it (e.g., personal computer -> pasonaru konnputaa -> pasokon).

As for sprachgefühle—I really don't think there is any need for that word. It's doesn't seem to fill a gap, other than an emerging love for German compounds.

Re:“Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist ... by eru on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:45AM (#15771151)
Even if it doesn't fill any gap at the moment, words that start out as synonyms have a habit of diverging in meaning to fill different gaps.