Laughing a little at the irony of loanwords 😂 yeah, I guess "mensch" in that sense is a double loanword really, German --> Yiddish --> English.
the answer is very much a no without having English as a buffer. On the other hand, I can't do Latin to English or vice versa, that needs to be routed through German. Fascinating! trobadora was saying the same about Chinese and English above. Latin and German maybe stick together because of the cases???
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Date: 2022-11-12 12:17 pm (UTC)yeah, I guess "mensch" in that sense is a double loanword really, German --> Yiddish --> English.
the answer is very much a no without having English as a buffer. On the other hand, I can't do Latin to English or vice versa, that needs to be routed through German.
Fascinating! trobadora was saying the same about Chinese and English above. Latin and German maybe stick together because of the cases???