AMD 5

For AMD 5 I read the Wikipedia article on "Denglisch." I thought the article was extremely interesting and I was intrigued by the blending of the languages. I know that languages have taken words and combined words   together in the past, but I think the mixing of words now-a-days is much more prevalent then previously. In a world with internet and a lot more interaction between the languages, not to mention all the terms that are being created from the internet (downloading, google, etc.) are contributing to the influx of these words.
In the case of a lot of English words being used in Germany (like in advertisements), I think that is mostly to appeal and to accommodate English speakers/English tourists in Germany, in addition to the fact that English has more speakers than German does.
Overall, I think it is interesting how words are just taken directly from one language to another. I personally contribute it to our more connected world, and I also think it is easier just to use the same word across the languages. The simplicity and the fact that a completely new creation of a word and making it become standard usage attributes to why the same word (or a mixed version) would be used rather than an entirely new word (in my opinion).

AMD 5

Für meine AMD ich spielte Deutsch Spiele. I googled german games online, and a bunch came up. They of course were not very challenging, but instead were more like spiele für die Kinder. I played a game where the computer flashed on words in Deutsch, and then I had to connect the word with something like a color or the body part. I know the games were not very challenging but they were definitley a fun way to refresh on vocab, which I can always be doing. I was also wondering what else I could do for this AMD and I googled funny German comic strips. I got a bunch of them that were in German, and some were hilarious, but very innapropriate for me to post on here, so I'll just leave my explanation at that. Aside from some funny comic strips most of the American ones were jokes either about Hitler or beer. Go figure right? maybe more American's should Deutsch Lernen so they can be more clever on the next go around of comic strips!

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I think that the "Denglish" phenomenon results from us becoming more and more globalized and integrating with other nations. I think it's interesting that even more words are being borrowed from both languages considering how the languages are so similar as it is. There are so many cognates between English and German (Musik, Auto, Freund, etc) already that it's interesting to me to see that they're becoming even more mixed. It kind of seems like this mixing of languages and vocabulary is somewhat inevitable given the global connection now compared to years ago. I understand where people are coming from when they said some people were upset about using Microsoft's coined term instead of the proper German term; but I don't know how you would really prevent this language exchange. Maybe the only way to keep the original authentic written language is to have a totally separate alphabet or something so it would be impossible for words to be borrowed. We were actually just talking about this topic in my Spanish class because were translating some slang from different spanish-speaking countries and my professor was saying how spanish, especially the spanish that's spoken in Mexico, is becoming more and more inundated with English words and cognates. Spanglish is the exact same idea as Denglish. Again I don't see a great way to prevent this from happening, especially since I see English and Spanish as very similar languages. I don't know if Denglish and Spanglish are entirely bad things; it's interesting to think about how maybe in the future the languages will be borrowed from even more and people will be able to communicate on a basic level with people across the world, even if they don't necessarily speak that second language.

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This "Denglish" phenomenon is probably not a new one and something that has been happening since the beginning of language and people of different cultures intermingling. It is probably just more pronounced because the world is quickly getting smaller with the advancement of technology and transportation so there is more and more mixing.
In highschool I took Japanese and I found that Japanese borrows a lot of words from other languages, they even have a different alphabet called katakana for representing words of a different language. One of the words that they took from German is arbeitet, which is the word for work. In Japanese, that's the word for a job.
But not only does German take English words, English in many ways comes from German. I do believe that German did come first chronologically and while taking German, some English and German words are very similar to each other where you could see that this is where the English word came from (probably, I'm not an expert in the history of language). Some examples might be "soll" and "should" and "muss" and "must" and "bier" and "beer" and "Marktplatz" and "market place."  There are many, many, examples of these similarities in phonetic characteristics of the words being almost the same, although the spellings might be different, but this is to be expected because the written representation of words came after the spoken word.
Also to explain this phenomenon with new technology there must be new words for defining these terms that didn't exist before. One of the examples the article used is the term "download" from Bill Gates Microsoft, that Germans now frequently use in their language. So I think that if a Russian had invented the word for "download" or some other country had done something similar and invented a word we would use that word if it was a big enough advancement in technology or if it didn't have an English translation, something that is completely new, and this article might instead be called Reutsch.