Pseudo-English revisited
am 21.10.2005 von http://transblawg.eu
Languagehat has taken up the topic I mentioned earlier, and in his comments, Bertil gives a link to the Wikipedia page on Scheinanglizismen.
This is what I need. I am sure there are more around, and it would make sense to add them here. I had been thinking of beginning a collection myself, but it’s only a few I’m really interested in, that come up in my translations sometimes. I’m not interested in the argument about whether or not a cell phone or something similar was ever called a handy in English.
Body Bag is familiar, of course. It refers to one of those sort of half-rucksacks or lopsided handbag-like bags that are held close to the body by the construction of their straps. I suppose rucksack and backpack are the English terms (this site gives the necessary translation into English).
Bertil writes:
I think the original objective of the dictionary is to find German words for English words that enter their language. To mix this with Scheinanglizismen is a bit confusing.
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