Reply #76: Karenina, [View All]

[blackhorse]

I think the disk jockeys of Germany are on a secret mission to spread the use of D'englisch! And, my, some of the graffiti I've seen about D'englisch ... rather unkind.

What drives me crazy is technology jargon. Even in the same field, concepts are reinvented repeatedly, and then given different names to "differentiate" them from each other.

One of the sad things I've seen with kids and languages is a couple I know who lives in Germany. They're both from other (and different) countries, but decided to speak only German with their child -- so that kid is now struggling to learn languages at school vice having three under his belt automatically had his parents just immersed him from birth forward.

Ach.

BH