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>Infiltration – #317

>There’s no holding back the (not so) subtle infiltration of the German language by Americanisms.

(This’ll get Bat on a rant….! For sure!)

They could have written “Saisonendeabschlussverkauf”, of course.

Doesn’t have quite the same ring, though.

Wouldn’t have fit the poster too well, either….

03 Feb This entry was published on 3 February, 2008 at 09:14. It’s filed under Mainz and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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  1. Unknown's avatarR&R in The Netherlands on said:

    >And to think, the last German word to infiltrate American speech was probably fahrvergnugen (I think I spelled it right, but don’t know how to type an umlaut in the comment screen).Isn’t there some Merkelism that can be exported?

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