
I bought a good English Dictionary -the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. There you can find a list of foreign words that used in the Anglosphere. I heard from that already bevor. It's funny to know, that people talk about HEIMSPIEL (literally home match). Much less funny are the words WELTSCHMERZ (literally world pain), BLITZKRIEG (literally lightning war) or SCHADENFREUDE (literally joy from harm). I think, it tells a lot about the mentality of a folk, if their words are so strong -much more stronger than people from other countries can say it in their own language, because it's not only the word but the whole meaning, even the mentality of a whole nation.
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Ich freue mich immer über:
Rucksack und Doppelgänger
andere:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_W%C3%B6rter_im_Englischen
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