Comments on: NRC newspaper comes up with ‘Denglish’

By: A pedant writes...

A pedant writes... — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:49:55 +0000

“But Denglish is German and English, so why use the wrong word? ”
And Wikipedia is the source of this wisdom, occording to your faq? Hmm…
Me, the missus and the expat circles I’ve moved in over the years have been calling it Denglish for the past 16 years or so that I know of, and that seems to predate any of their sources if we’re being so stellig about it.

Anyway, you’re right about the NRC blog. It really is terrible.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:55:07 +0000

But Denglish is German and English, so why use the wrong word? They’re whimps

By: Sandrijn

Sandrijn — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:03:02 +0000

Isn’t itr possible that they prefer Denglish over Dunglish to avoid using the word “dung”? I thought it was rather funny, especially because the ‘dung’ makes it sound like the inventor of the word wants to say: well, that kind of English is total crap –which it really is.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:00:47 +0000

Aaaah but I do know John O’MIll! He’s great

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:58:16 +0000

I can’t believe you maintain an entire website dedicated to Dunglish and nowhere is there a mention of John O’Mill!
If you don’t know whom I’m referring to, a quick Google will tell you that he invented the whole concept and popularised it, ages ago, as in:
A terrible infant called Peter,
Sprinkled his bed with a gheter,
His father got woost,
Took hold of a knoost,
And gave him a pack on his meter.
Or:
When the old freule, Dame Braidreight,
Down the banister into the hall glate,
‘t Was the big rusty nail,
At the end of the rail,
That the old girl in two bleeding halves spleight.

By: Ludolph

Ludolph — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:56:19 +0000

@ isadoor: inderdaad prachtig Dunglish. Je kan daar bovendien toegang krijgen tot hun ‘nieuwsfeed’. En ook: ‘Studie bewijst dat creativiteit boomt’.

By: isadoor

isadoor — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:48:30 +0000

hi,

i found a nice dunglish example. Not sure where to send it to…
So, for anyone that is interested, http://www.ad.nl/reizen/article2678159.ece, Denk OUT of the BOX

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:55:25 +0000

Ouch.

If you’re going to run a column about Dunglish in the NRC, don’t let people write submissions in Dunglish!

And saying ‘please come over some time’ when you don’t really mean it is not a cultural matters; it’s just insincerity.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:47:27 +0000

Thanks for the correction, you guys are good

By: Emerald Rose

Emerald Rose — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:34:16 +0000

Actually, when I was at secondary school (an international school) I had a substitue Dutch teacher who said “I fok horses”. We laughed so hard because of the nuance in the word “fok”. We didn’t know the meaning at the time, though. As for other things in Mr Rijkens’ book, I can’t recall ever having heard them in any situation.

FiXato: yeah, I caught the mispelling of “cutlural” too *lol*