English calques and pseudo-anglicisms: No Problem

[Donald Barton Johnson]

When in Russia the early 60s I remarked to a Russian "Eto IX
problema". He looked bemused and said it was an anglicism.

D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA  93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, James Bailey wrote:

> Heinrich Pfandl,
>       Are you sure that "no problem" isn't a Germanism?  I too never heard
> the expression in English but when I went to Germany in the mid 50's in the
> army I heard it from German speakers very often.   Das ist kein
> Problem.  My impression is that Americans only in the last decade or so
> started using the expression.
>       Jim Bailey
>
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