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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: German/English words
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In article <32E3B947.3318@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>,
Oguz Basoglu  <basoglu@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>What about "Hinterland", "Waldsterben" or "Zeitgeist"

What about them?  Are these meant to be excluded from the list of "true
friends" some of us where trying to compile?  Or are they supposedly
German words for which there is no English equivalents?  If the former,
than you can scratch "Waldsterben" because I don't think 1 in 1000 English
speakers could tell you what it means, ergo it is not English, ergo it
cannot be a "friend" ("true" or "false").  If the latter, I can certainly
present appropriate English equivalents for all three terms:  "interior",
"forest death", and "spirit of the times".

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