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I feel like this is basically German. When I read German there's a lot there's loan words, though naturally those text here is deliberately without them. But Ge
by lordnacho 4y ago
I feel like this is basically German. When I read German there's a lot there's loan words, though naturally those text here is deliberately without them. But German does seem to try to make its own words rather than mash up French, Latin, and Greek.
The loan word that sticks out is handy, which for some reason means mobile phone.
- jonas21 4y ago"Handy" is arguably not a loan-word since "hand" is German. And it kind of makes sense for it to mean mobile phone since it's a phone you carry around in your hand. "Handphone" is used to refer to mobile phones in parts of Asia as well. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handphone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handphone
- dkdbejwi383 4y agoHandy, Beamer, Fenster, Kaffee, Fabrik, Literatur, gratis, Konservatismus, Palast, vegetarisch, Zucker, usw. There are many loan words in German.
- lordnacho 4y agoBut any language will have a bunch, especially for foreign concepts. the question is how much you use them. You can't really write English without a pile of French and Latin.
- cardanome 4y agoYeah, German is a more synthetic language compared to English which is fully analytical. (Analytical language tend to use particles to denote relations between words while synthetic languages use inflection. Synthetic languages tend to create new words by adding morphemes to existing ones.) Though note that modern German is moving more and into becoming analytical. Which also coincides with the huge influence of English on modern German language and culture. Especially younger Germans will freely mix in English words and phrases into their speech. Consciously avoiding English words is becoming more and more difficult and can sound artificial.