Re:Voltswagen of America
by zwieback on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:55PM
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Excellent question, running through a few options in my mind "Version and Variation" come to mind. I'm not sure those qualify as a proper German words, probably not.
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Re:Voltswagen of America
by tomjakubowski on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:48PM
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Is my understanding correct that loan words are usually pronounced according to the donor language? (e.g. "das Handy") I seem to remember V is special somehow too, for historical reasons.
If I am reading Duden right, Version is directly a French loanword:
https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Version
while Variation is "influenced" by French: