Re:“Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist ...
by arghwhat on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:35AM
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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.
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.