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Originally Posted by pj67coll
I've often wondered about that. Given the technical nature of much of what Germany has achieved and the literature / artistic emanations of english. I don't speak German but would be interested to see some examples. Can you provide?
- Peter.
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I never had any trouble in German class and I am bad at languages. German is Latin based like most other European languages and shares a lot of smiler terms and words with the others including English.
Technical compound words can sometimes be fun, they love compound words. In that respect English is a more precise language, we have actually words for technical terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsaufgaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz
http://www.spiegel.de/0,1518,,00.html
Someone who speaks German dig the article up, I'm not that good. I don't think the translation is wrong though, Christ is Christ its the same in both languages.