标题: English Loanwords in German Language [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-27-2013 07:55 标题: English Loanwords in German Language Anna Sauerbrey, How Do You Say ‘Blog’ in German? Why Europeans should embrace linguistic cosmopolitanism. New York Times, Sept 26, 2013 (op-ed) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/2 ... blog-in-german.html
(“linguistic borrowing [from English] has been increasing, as technology both creates its own new words and facilitates the global spread of newfangled cultural terminology.
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(i) Sauerbrey is “Americanized form of German Sauerbräu, an occupational name for someone who made vinegar, from Middle High German surbriuwe, Middle Low German surbrouwe.”
Sauerbrey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerbrey
(may refer to persons in US, Germany, the Netherlands)
(ii) Kramer: “German (also Krämer), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a shopkeeper, peddler, or hawker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German kram ‘trading post’, ‘tent’, ‘booth.’ EG, AB This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.”
(iii) Beck: “German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, a cognate of Baker, from (older) South German beck, West Yiddish bek. North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from Low German Beke ‘stream.’ Compare the High German form Bach 1.”
(c) Duden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duden
(a dictionary of the German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, [which] was declared the official source for correct spelling in the administration of Prussia the same year)
(d) “A way of saying that your world is bigger than that medium-size country in the middle of Europe that doesn’t even have the guts to support military action in Libya or Syria.”
That alludes to Germany. President of France recently came out in support of missile attack on Syria; he did not expect that his countrymen would jeer him as a lackey of US.
(e) digital native http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native
(f) Der Tagesspiegel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Tagesspiegel
(“Daily Mirror;” a classical liberal German daily newspaper; Founded 1945; Language German; Headquarters Berlin)