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gu-gohan
08/10/22 5:32:49 AM
#1:


Just curious:

Why are german words like...

  • Kindergarten
  • Schadenfreude
  • Zeitgeist
... a part of your language?

When has it started?

And why?
I mean, don't you have an english word with the same meaning as "Schadenfreude"?

Why not "children garden" for "Kindergarten"? :D

As I said, I'm just curious. It's funny for me (I'm from Switzerland).

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spikethedevil
08/10/22 5:41:58 AM
#2:


English has evolved from a few different languages due to whats not the UK being invaded and settled so many times over the last few thousand years.

Germanic languages.
Latin.
Ancient Norse.
And some others Im probably forgetting.

Also

https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/is-english-a-germanic-language/

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FunkyCat
08/10/22 5:47:33 AM
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Nursery is an English variant of kindergarten afaik.

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spikethedevil
08/10/22 5:58:33 AM
#4:


FunkyCat posted...
Nursery is an English variant of kindergarten afaik.

We call kindergarten pre school or nursery here in the UK.

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Illuminoius
08/10/22 6:09:26 AM
#5:


english has germanic roots and, like many languages, has a fuckton of borrowed or artifact words
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FunkyCat
08/10/22 6:14:26 AM
#6:


spikethedevil posted...
We call kindergarten pre school or nursery here in the UK.
Yup. Just dont know how many of 'the colonies' also use it like us.

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Ilishe
08/10/22 6:17:55 AM
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Same reason you have English words in German.

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teep_
08/10/22 6:25:39 AM
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Weil Wrter auf Deutsch Sachverhalte viel besser beschreiben knnen

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gu-gohan
08/10/22 12:11:02 PM
#9:


teep_ posted...
Weil Wrter auf Deutsch Sachverhalte viel besser beschreiben knnen
Wunderschn ausgedrckt! Ein Hoch auf die Deutsche Sprache! :D

Didn't knew about the word nursery. Learned something = check.

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uwnim
08/10/22 12:15:57 PM
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Because if a word feels useful, we will just take it.

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Serious_Cat
08/10/22 12:29:05 PM
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According to Wikipedia, Zeitgeist came through Hegel's writings and was used directly as there's no English equivalent. Kindergarten as a concept was German and was brought to the US by Germans and that's what they called it.

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