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Art/Literary - Journalism | | English term or phrase: second-class status was a spur | From an article in the Economist about Germans cleaning their language from too many anglicisms. Any idea how "spur" is to be understood in this context? (For the right understanding it may help to consider that the Economist is a British paper).
"... groups taught Germans to
prefer Abstand to the French Distanz and Augenblick to Moment. (Some coinages failed: Meuchelpuffer was shot down by Pistole.) The Napoleonic wars and, later, the German empire brought more linguistic cleansing. Second-class status was a spur. Unlike Latin and French, German was never the language of diplomacy and culture."
The whole article can be read here: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story... |
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| | German translation:leiden unter der Zweitrangigkeit | Explanation:
müsste noch ein subjekt dazu, in diesem fall wohl deutschland oder wenns etwas dicker sein soll die deutsche volksseele oder nur das volk |
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27 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +8 ein Stachel im Fleische
Explanation:
etwas, über das man sich maßlos ärgerte, aber nicht ändern konnte (d.h. über den zweite Klasse-Status der deutschen Sprache - die Tatsache, dass das Deutsche eben nicht die Sprache der Diplomatie war).
also auf journalistisch vielleicht:" war ein Stachel im deutschen Fleische."
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