Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 12:04 pm People around here sometimes use words like danke (which they pronounce /ˈdaŋkə/ [ˈd̥ãŋkə(ː)]) and Gesundheit (which they pronounce /ɡəˈzunˌtəet/ [ɡ̥ɘːˈzỹnˌtʰə̆ĕ̯ʔ(t)]) in the midst of English.

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 12:12 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 12:04 pm People around here sometimes use words like danke (which they pronounce /ˈdaŋkə/ [ˈd̥ãŋkə(ː)]) and Gesundheit (which they pronounce /ɡəˈzunˌtəet/ [ɡ̥ɘːˈzỹnˌtʰə̆ĕ̯ʔ(t)]) in the midst of English.

Hasn't "gesundheit" basically become a loan word by now, to some extent replacing "bless you" among some people? I mean, my browser's spell check is currently set to English, and it doesn't underline the word as I'm writing this.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 4:17 pm One thing I should note is that in I've heard in English the word dankies, which seems to be either a mutation of Afrikaans dankie or German danke.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:30 pm Does it count when documents with a scholarly bent have untranslated passages? It’s somewhat not rare in linguistics papers—and I have a copy of the Kalevala Latina, which has an English excerpt in a Finnish preface to a work written in Latin (which was the reason I acquired the book from the university book sale).

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:14 am Oh, another thing I thought of— when I was in France, I saw no shortage of gratuitous English in advertisements and suchlike, inevitably with a little footnote with French translation. What made this so amusing is that, over here, the usual gratuitous language is French.

One example which particularly stuck in my memory was a poster near my apartment with text, ‘à la French’. And, of course, the small print dutifully translated it into good French as ‘à la français’.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:21 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:14 am Oh, another thing I thought of— when I was in France, I saw no shortage of gratuitous English in advertisements and suchlike, inevitably with a little footnote with French translation. What made this so amusing is that, over here, the usual gratuitous language is French.

One example which particularly stuck in my memory was a poster near my apartment with text, ‘à la French’. And, of course, the small print dutifully translated it into good French as ‘à la français’.

Now that is interesting. There are tons of gratuitous English words in advertising and the like here, but they never come with helpful translation notes.