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Re: Denglish - [was: wie kann ich Emacs so einstellen, dass ich drucken
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tomas |
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Re: Denglish - [was: wie kann ich Emacs so einstellen, dass ich drucken kann] |
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Sun, 18 Dec 2022 07:45:08 +0100 |
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:54:34PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > > Using English words in German sentences a lot has its own name:
> > > speaking Denglish.
> >
> > Interesting. That's more anglified than the
> > French equivalent, which is "franglais".
> >
> > Dunno whether that's indicative of where the
> > needle is on the lang-mix dial. ;-)
>
> Maybe. The real German word is "Denglisch", not "Denglish" (I tried to
> translate it...)
>
> So comparing Denglisch with
> De ut sch
>
> "Denglisch" actually still shares 5/9 > 50% of characters with the word
> "Deutsch". But OTOH it sounds just as "Englisch" with a "D" added to
> the front. So your analysis is correct I think.
Back to topic (Emacs ;-)
(string-distance "Denglisch" "Deutsch")
=> 4
(string-distance "Denglisch" "English")
=> 3
Cheers
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