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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear Fritz,</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">In my dictionary Sprachgef</span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">ü</span><span style="COLOR: blue">hl is defined as 'feeling for correct idiom, feeling for a language',</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">By the way, I defend Scott's question. I am concious of native speaker's feeling for correct language models, idioms, word order, usages, etc. Being native Russian speaker and learning a bunch of languages</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Romance, Slavic, Germanic to Semitic languages, I still feel that I know Russian the best, I feel what can be expressed this way and not the other way, what are correct and wrong usages, I easily detect regional and historical dialects, and particular styles of speakers. Despite lifelong study of my linguistic baggage (I feel that luggage is not good here), I still can't say the same about my feeling for some of linguistic details in my acquired languages, even I am probably capable to write a decent Latin letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero or a linguistically correct Hebrew letter to Moses, the biblical</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">Also, I should tell that in some linguistic cultures the category of Sprachgef</span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">ü</span><span style="COLOR: blue">hl is more acceped than in others. I know that Russian and French speakers are more sensitive to the correctness of the speech than English and Spanish ones. This probably is due to existence of large varieties of the "Spanishes" and "Englishes". Roman writer Aulus Gellius (II cent. C.E.) in his <em>Attic Nights </em>examins correct usages and expresses his feelings about that comparing usages of the best Latin writers who lived before him. The purity and clarity of the language was propagated also in medieval Arabic culture, including correct use of right words. </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: blue">I hope this clear some obscurity of Sprachgef</span><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">ü</span><span style="COLOR: blue">hl.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">However the question, whether Lexicography List is a right place for such a question as Scott asks, is</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">completely different thing. I believe that the better place would be a site devoted to English language and style.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><<I also wonder why certain words are borrowed from other languages>> This must be treated in any lexicography book.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Hayim Sheynin</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">PS. Franz, a propos your question, how it is in English. I can tell that some terms are accepted in many languages with no translation. For example there is literary term Entfernung in Russian, words gentleman and lady, as well as dama are understandable to Russians, not speaking about thousands of Greek and Latin terms, and after perestroika there are thousands of English terms entered Russian, as in the epoch of Peter the Great (first half of the XVIII century) many hundreds of German words.</font></span></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(30,102,174); FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">I wonder how you define "Sprachgefühl." That would help me to answer your question.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(30,102,174); FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">I also wonder why certain words are borrowed from other languages. English has not</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(30,102,174); FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">borrowed which exceptional players of games have where a ball plays a role</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(30,102,174); FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">(Diego Maradona, Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal). How would one say "Ballgefühl" in English?</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: rgb(30,102,174); FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Is this the wrong list to ask whether, in your opinion or research,<span> </span><br>Sprachgefuhl varies most by class, region, or level of education?<br>
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