Re: OT: verboten WAS: Insider #59: IDS Express

Hi, like the use of English words in German vocabulary is called "Anglizismus" (or "anglicism"), this is the corrsponding thing in English, probably called "germanism" (to coin a phrase ... :) There are many examples for "germanisms" in the English language (where the English language in general is adopting many words from other languages with increasing rate). Some prominent examples are: - kindergarden (from "Kindergarten") - zeitgeist - angst - ueber... (as in "Jack Welch was an ueber-boss") - schlepp (from "schleppen") I'm always amused when reading such words in english-language publications, but unfortunately I keep forgetting them ... Cheers, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 06/07/2005 09:52:05 PM: > Interesting, i try to write halfway understandably english and > americans and canadians write german... > As an german i would write "forbidden" for "verboten", can anybody me > explain what is the difference ? > > Thanks, > try_and_err > > Christopher schrieb: > > Art S. Kagel wrote: > > > IDS Express 10.00 IS IDS 10.00. Only the licensing issues and some flags > > > turning off verboten features are changed. Performance on the same box > > > configured the same way is the same for IDS WorkGroup Edition, Express > > > Edition, or Enterprise Edition. > > ... sending to informix-list

"Martin Fuerderer" <MARTINFU@de.ibm.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1118223450.a28eb69f23dad2cc835d4861e7413cb1@teranews... > > Hi, > > like the use of English words in German vocabulary > is called "Anglizismus" (or "anglicism"), this is the > corrsponding thing in English, probably called > "germanism" (to coin a phrase ... :) > Yup. There is a lot of those. Also some really old ones like Eigenvector and Eigenvalue in math. One of the cutest things I ever heard (it was in New York) was the term 'hasi' (little bunny) for a male homesexual. Cheers, Dirk -- -- Dirk Gunsthoevel IT Systemanalyse phone: +49 (0)251 28446-0 -- Hammer Str. 13 fax: +49 (0)251 28446-55 -- D-48153 Muenster http://www.GunCon.de/ -- "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..."