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Lots of Hawaiian words are dropped into conversation. Those heard most often are :
"The committee appreciates your kokua" (cooperation,help)
"Thank you for sharing your mana" (mana -long final a = thoughts, essence)
"Mahalo for the birthday gift" (Mahalo = thank you)
And the bus at the airport that whisks you from one airline to another is the "wiki-wicki bus." (wiki-wicki = fast)
Then of course there is that lovely word : aloha.
And if you think I am going to type in the half page Pukui-Ebert Hawaiian Dictionary entry on the many meanings of aloha, think again!
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My supervisor's favourite swear is "piss and merdre". (He's an anglo, BTW.)
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My supervisor's favourite swear is "piss and merdre". (He's an anglo, BTW.)
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in Germany[...]Turns of Phrase: Denglisch
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It's open to debate whether this is really an English word, though it has been seen in a number of English-language publications in recent months, because it was actually coined in German. Its first letter comes from 'Deutsch', the German for 'German'. It refers to the hybrid German-English fashionable speech of younger Germans, heavily influenced in particular by American English.
It's perhaps only to be expected that computerese such as 'e-mail' and 'homepage' are standard (even 'computer', which has pushed out the native 'Rechner', and 'webmaster', which is used instead of 'Webmeister'). Outside computing, you may encounter 'contemporary', 'task force', 'party', 'shopping', 'goalgetter', and 'sales' among many others. On German railways, you will find 'service points', 'ticket counters' and 'lounges'.
Many Germans have been angered by what they see as the linguistic imperialism of such imports. Some, such as Eckart Werthebach, the Christian Democrat interior minister, have called for a language purification law to ban them; others have suggested an Academy for the Cultivation and Protection of the German Language, similar to the Académie Française. What annoys them especially is the way that English words infiltrate otherwise normal German sentences. A notable example was a notice seen at a German airport: "Mit dem 'stand-by-upgrade-Voucher' kann das 'Ticket' beim 'Check-in' aufgewertet werden".
This movement wants to impose hefty fines on any German caught using the bastardised tongue known as 'Denglisch'. [Observer, Mar. 2001]
Werthebach's plan has sparked a national debate over whether the language of the printing pioneer Johann Gutenberg and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe is in danger of being diluted into the German- English mixture now known as Denglisch. [Reuters, Mar. 2001] Excerpt from: WORLD WIDE WORDS ISSUE 230 Saturday 31 March 2001 Editor: Michael Quinion ISSN 1470-1448 Thornbury, Bristol, UK http://www.worldwidewords.org Mail: editor@worldwidewords.org I particularly love the sign board example! ~ and also the delightful irony of young German trendies adopting 'webmaster' whilst young Anglo trendies might well use 'webmeister'. The webs of linguistic fashion... 
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young German trendies adopting 'webmaster' whilst young Anglo trendies might well use 'webmeister'
When I lived in Flagstaff the standard for chicanos was to be known to their chicano friends by the Anglo version of their names and to their Anglo friends by the Spanish version. One person would be, e.g., Ramón to his Anglo friends and Raymond to his chicano friends.
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Turns of Phrase: Denglisch
On the bookshelf: The Joys of Yinglish by Leo Rosten, McGraw-Hill (1989).
Raises a point in connection with bilingual interpolation. We've been talking about the speaker incorporating a second tongue's words; he might instead adopt its characteristic syntax and stress-patterns. Is suspect the latter may be far more common.
You want an example? I'll give you an example.
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irregular verbs too-- play havoc with bilingualism
"you want i should cry?" (instead of Did you want me to cry?)--Did go the emphatic case also creeps in as past tense --for went. We did go to the store last night.
NY has spanglish, and yidish, and italian slang words that i can think of-- that have become part of NY venacular. the most recent influx has been Koreans/chinese/japanese. but so far, i haven't seen any of their vocabulary crossing over, not even something as simple as Hai! the japanese equivient of OK.
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the most recent influx has been Koreans/chinese/japanese. but so far, i haven't seen any of their vocabulary crossing over
I'd say that you were just a skosh wrong here, but that came in during WWII or earlier.
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Funny you should mention Korean, ot... I picked up very little Korean in the time that I lived there, but one word that still sticks with me is "Kapshida" [with the a's pronounced as ah]. It's comparable to the Spanish "Vamonos" and all its inherent meanings - let's go, alright I'm ready, get a move on, get out of my way, et al. Comes in handy, *especially* when no one else understands any Korean. [evil ]
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