Other languages are left with the problem of Anglicisms where handy English words and phrases are imported but never sounds like natural parts of the language.
Other languages are left with the problem of Anglicisms where handy English words and phrases are imported but never sounds like natural parts of the language.
"Neologismuskreierungsmeister" (new word creation champion)
It's not possible to say the same thing without using compound words without heavily modifying the sentence structure. It would be in English, if you translate it directly, but it isn't in German:
"Sie sind die Neologismusbildungsmeister" vs "Sie sind die Meister im Bilden von Neologismen"
If those compound words are only a spelling convention, the question would be, where do we draw the line. Does "Firefighter" count, or do only the words it is made of, "Fire" and "Fighter"? "Railroad"? "Notebook"? :D
I meant English is flexible in the way it absorbs and digests foreign words and makes them sound and feel like natural parts of English.
It's uniquely good for engineering and science terms. For instance, if I try to translate a term like Random Access Memory to my native language, it just sounds dumb and doesn't tell you what it is.
What I really like in English is how they verb nearly everything, especially nouns.
Where I cringe at, is Dutch and German pronunciation of English. There are very few non native English people with perfect pronunciation. European commissionary Frans Timmermans (who had his education in Belgium) and vrt journalist Johny Vansevant, who both have perfect British English pronunciation (Received pronunciation). Kim Clijsters speaks near perfect General American (but she lives there and has an American husband). I like Greta Thunberg's command and richness of vocabulary and grammar despite the accent.
I'm making a conscious effort to speak General American and follow a few youtube channels to get better all the time.