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Johann Wolfgang Goethe - "Der Typ ist total gestylt" (Photo: Wikipedia /Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.)

English language to get German upgrade

by Honor Mahony, Brussels,

While in Germany you can attend 'ein Meeting' that is 'gemanaget' by someone else using your "down-geloadete" information from the internet.

After that you might need to rush to the airport for 'das Einchecken' before taking off in a plane with a 'stewardess' on it.

German is peppered with English words either accepted wholly into the language of Goethe or Germanified such as 'gestylt' - as in "Der Typ ist total gestylt" - that bloke is totally done up.

The result is 'Dengli...

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