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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 pronuncia
by arghwhat 9y ago
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.
- eru 9y agoEven 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.