"Mein neuer Job als Babysitterin" [NT]

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 26, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> There is no good German word for a babysitter

much less for a female babysitter (very important to maintain those distinctions)

> , so why shouldn't they borrow
> the English one.
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> DanG
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> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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