LL-L "Lexicon" 2003.10.18 (02) [E]

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject:  LL-L "Phonology" 2003.10.16 (16) [E]

Reinhardt, do you know many French people or French speakers? The French
have taken week-end as a very annoying borrowing that they use instead of
fin de semaine. As you know, I can't stand those blatant substitution for
English words when French has words for such things as les week-ends et les
business. It is weird to my native English-speaking ears, but I don't put it
above the Brits.
Ben

What
> is peculiar in the case of "weekénd," though, is that the /k/ becomes the
> onset of the second syllable, thus "wee-kénd," at least in the versions I
> have heard.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Lexicon

Ben,

> Reinhardt, do you know many French people or French speakers?

I've known a fair number over my lifetime so far.

The thing with what I call "voluntary loanwords" (i.e., those that do not
come with actual colonization) is very coplex, it seems.  I believe it has
something to do with a mix of pretention (i.e., initially showing off one's
"with-it-ness" and education) and a type of "laziness" or reluctance to
find, invent and use a native term.  In the case of imported foreign items
and concepts, loaning is natural.  In cases such as "weekend" and "happy
end" I don't think it came as a new concept.  However, I don't mind being
contradicted.

Regards,
Reinhard(without a <t>)/Ron

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