![]() ![]() Since then, the ubiquity of the practice has made it much less fashionable or prestigious, and several commentators have argued against it. The introduction of English buzzwords peaked during the 1990s and the early 2000s. The term Denglisch refers to abundant or excessive use of anglicisms or pseudo-anglicisms in German. Some influence of English on German is expected as part of normal language contact. Another set of terms is based on the word German. These include (chronologically) Deutschlisch (first recorded in 1970), Deutlish (1977), Deutschlish (1979) and Dinglish (1990). In English there are numerous colloquial portmanteau words. Other slang terms in German which refer to the same phenomenon include: McDeutsch ("McGerman"), Dummdeutsch ("dumb German"), Dönerdeutsch (kebab German). ![]() The term itself is not a standard German word, but an informal portmanteau of Deutsch + English, and gives the same kind of impression in German, as the word Spanglish has in English: i.e., it is well-understood, but it is an informal word for which there is no common equivalent in standard language use. Other sources use words with aggressive, hostile, or negative connotations to describe it such as "a persistent infiltration", an "invasion", "onslaught", or "attack", or that it is "corrupting the language" or is an "infectious disease". The standard German reference work Duden defines it as "a pejorative term for German with too many English expressions mixed in." The term is particularly used by language purists in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of English or pseudo-English vocabulary (and other features of the language such as grammar and orthography) into German. The word has been adopted in English in an anglicized form as Denglish, recorded from 1996. It is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch ( German) and Englisch. Mixed German, English and French in a German department storeĭenglisch is a term describing the increased use of anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in the German language. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( October 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research. ![]()
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