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Since you can't post on "Loanwords from German", post it here. I shall ask you to read Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language", let you find out yourself what I've tried posting on the original thead, and sign off.
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Dear jimthedog: Mark Twain made fun of German because it was his business to make fun of just about everything.But language is what people make it.Many gifted people have written marvelous things in German.
During WWII many German military terms became English words. I do not recall any recent ones.
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Mark Twain made fun of German because it was his business to make fun of just about everything.
I know that was his job, but it was good anyway. I was thinking, when I wrote that, to give out the title in which the quote in the other German comes from.
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During WWII many German military terms became English words. I do not recall any recent ones.
I'm suprised we only used blitz, not blitzkrieg, which they used.
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"Gezunheit!" came into general use during WWII as soldiers began to return stateside from ETO.
I'm sure I spelt it wrong. It's the word used when someone sneezes.
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Gesundheit!
Flak is also from German. An acronym from FLugZeug Abwehr Kanonen, or something like that.
Ænigma likes Flak OK but made its expansion FLuid Abysmal Kansas
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I do not recall any recent ones."travelling in a Vdub Kombi" - Kombi is one post-war German import very well used up here in the Antipodes. 
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"travelling in a Vdub Kombi"Hmm...my CD liner notes list this bit of lyric as "travelling in a fried-out combie." I think your version makes more sense.
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Hmm...my CD liner notes list this bit of lyric as "travelling in a fried-out combie."
I think your version makes more sense. Aksherly, mine was a mondegreen, but a semi-intentional one. The van is most often spelled Kombi, and that is the original German spelling. The "Vdub" was my childhood misinterpretation, used here as an homage to international copyright protection laws. 
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I believe a Kombi is what Us'n aging hippies used to call a Microbus.
Far out. [psychedelic e]
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...used here as an homage How *do you pronounce that, anyway? 
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