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What does the term “fremdschämen” mean? How to write it correctly?
Saw this in a chat, doesn't yield an answer.
Is this similar to have a pity on somebody?
And how to write those word-creations? Is there a general rule of thumb?
Seems pretty arbitrary. I saw:
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Possibilities in German to minimize a term?
I stumbled upon the English term Truthiness
"truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" in that it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or ...
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Verwendung von zögernd und “zögerlich”
"zögerlich" ist ein relativ neues Wort, gebräuchlich erst seit den 80ern, wenn man Google glauben darf.
Meines Wissens wird es ausschließlich als Ersatz für das herkömmliche "zögernd" verwendet.
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Wie nennt man eine Wortveredelung durch Komposition?
Immer wieder begegnet man vor allem in der Werbung und bei Produktbezeichnungen einer eigenartigen Wortneuschöpfung durch Bildung von zusammengesetzten Wörtern wie:
Edelschokolade
Landmilch
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How do you translate German wordplay into English?
This is a somewhat generic issue, I suppose, in that it affects both English-to-German and German-to-English translation.
Today I came across what I thought was an example of good German wordplay:
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