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There's a lot of pseudo-English in German, though. The common German word for a cellphone is "Handy" and particularly in the former GDR, chicken meat is often c
by jhbadger 9y ago
There's a lot of pseudo-English in German, though. The common German word for a cellphone is "Handy" and particularly in the former GDR, chicken meat is often called "Broiler". Both are obviously English words, but they aren't used that way in English.
- eru 9y agoThat used to annoy me a bit (as a German), but it's actually quite resourceful from a linguistic point of view. 'Smoking' is another interesting pseudo-English German word.
- mmjaa 9y agoAhem, hand is a cognate of old German and Dutch .. Also, the '-ing' part comes from the continent, as well. :)
- eru 9y agoSure, there are lots of cognates. Some of the hardest to translate words are actually cognates. For example it's almost impossible to properly translate the German word 'Brot' into English. It's a cognate of 'bread', but Germans mean something very different by 'Brot' than the British mean by 'bread'. Loaning a word ad-hoc is much easier by comparison. Eg Bundeskanzler means exactly the same in English as it does in German. As does Prime Minister.