Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] language - was new to this list - dry ambient sub??

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

--- Carsten Standfuß <MerlinSub@t-online.de> wrote:
> Kindergarten - its another nice german word.. 

There are thousands of "loan" words in English from dozens of languages.  We really don't care, we
steal from anyone who has a word we like.  If you don't know the English word for something, try
the German word - it works ok sometimes (also try any other language you know).  This is in
addition to the fact that English really is a Germanic tounge, heavily influenced by Norman
French, Gaelic, Welsh, and everything else.  (English folk, German Volk; English swine, German
Schweine; etc etc - - German Du, English thou!)

>official language

No, it's Urban Legend.  Nice writeup at
http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/german_us_official_lang.html

One local jurisdiction (just outside Washington DC) frequently publishes material in English,
Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and one more alphabet I can't read (Hindi?) for the
convenience of immigrant communities.  In other areas different languages are used as locally
determined but English is accepted as "the one that counts."  

-L

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