On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
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On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
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#2What was the issue with "spontaneously"? (Maybe I'm secretly a Berliner.)
Re: On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
#3What was the issue with "spontaneously"? (Maybe I'm secretly a Berliner.)
It’s a false friend for a German. The German adverb „spontan“ does not mean „spontaneously“. The former means „at short notice“ while the latter „without direction“.
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#4good article, reminiscent of my own time in berlin never heard of berlinglisch, but lived through a lot of denglish i still find myself writing sentences like “that should do it, or?” and saying “alsoooo” and “na ja” way too much.
never lived in neukölln so i missed out on the more hipster bits, and actually had to learn proper german eventually
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#5What was the issue with "spontaneously"? (Maybe I'm secretly a Berliner.)
It’s a false friend for a German. The German adverb „spontan“ does not mean „spontaneously“. The former means „at short notice“ while the latter „without direction“.
eventuell and aktuell are two great ones ask any tech worker shat eventual consistency is in german and then get very frazzled
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#6What was the issue with "spontaneously"? (Maybe I'm secretly a Berliner.)
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a false friend for a German. The German adverb „spontan“ does not mean „spontaneously“. The former means „at short notice“ while the latter „without direction“.
eventuell and aktuell are two great ones ask any tech worker shat eventual consistency is in german and then get very frazzled
Haha lovely!
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#8What was the issue with "spontaneously"? (Maybe I'm secretly a Berliner.)
Spontaneously means for something to happen surprisingly or without an apparent cause.
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#9As a native Urberliner I am both flattered and confused by the fact so many young Americans choose to live in my home town. I always wondered what makes it so attractive to you. I mean, winters are miserable, the city is ugly compared to many others in Germany, the people are rather not friendly to each other, the German language is difficult to learn, our history is troublesome, German immigration laws still difficult to surmount and Berlin is becoming very expensive to live in these days compared to 20 years ago.
Edit: Perhaps I‘ve got the typical love/hate relationship with my home town and don’t see the forest for the trees we keep saying around here ;).
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#10As a native Urberliner I am both flattered and confused by the fact so many young Americans choose to live in my home town. I always wondered what makes it so attractive to you. I mean, winters are miserable, the city is ugly compared to many others in Germany, the people are rather not friendly to each other, the German language is difficult to learn, our history is troublesome, German immigration laws still difficu…
I hear it has the best night life, second to Seoul.