[Corpora-List] foreign words in German

[Alon Lischinsky]

2011/9/28 chris brew <cbrew at acm.org> wrote:

> This notion of "foreign word" is absolutely not sustainable.

I think a better (more testable) way to put it is that 'foreignness'
is not categorical but scalar, and that the ranking judgements of
native speakers are likely to be inconsistent, as well as often
unrelated to etymological origin.

On the other hand, it may well be that the history of German allows
one to identify cohorts of words borrowed largely at the same time,
and having experienced a similar amount of adaptation, so that some
definite clusters can be appreciated within the cline running from the
fully native (e.g., 'Weg') and the recently borrowed (e.g., 'Quiz'). I
don't know enough about German to check if that's reasonable, though.

A.

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