| Penguin |
11-27-13 09:58 AM |
Don't want to open a Kanne of Worms again, just my 2 Pfennig here.
Late to the thread, I'm sure I say nothing which hasn't been said over the last 15 pages. I agree that a machine can't have an ideology, therefore I think in reporting "Nazi uboat" is just as awkward as "Commie AK" - "Soviet gun" is ok, as this was the name of the country. Everyday language is a whoile different pair of shoes. During my daily utterances, I usually add Nazi to everything I dislike crappy automobilist: nazi-driver, bad music: nazi-sound, etc.
However the whole proportion is way off. I am happy that the subsim staff fetches some news for us, glad they provide the work and glad they stick to legitimate sources and no fringe websites. The Huffington post is a mass media, a very mediocre one too, so it's somehow explainable they use mass language, it's not a historic journal.
Looks like the Huff Post is also capable to report in more neutral language: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1713401.html :hmmm:
k, this Hess been enough.
back to the (very enjoyable:haha:) lingo wordplay - it's much harder for a native speaker to come up wirth a clever one than I thought.
A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany? |
