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Re: German favourite words (was Re: Language Difficulty)

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Friday, September 28, 2001, 18:49
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:42:28 EDT, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:

>In a message dated 27.09.2001 10:59:34 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>>I've always liked "tschechisch" [tSECIS] ...
And the Russian letter 'shcha' is translitterated schtsch: Schtscherbakow. Schtschukin. Chruschtschew. Dunno how/if Germans manage to pronounce that...
> I am inordinatingly fond of _Verfremdungseffekt_ - the word itself &
the
>concept - ever since I took German theatre and cinema courses in college
more
>than a decade ago. > A related word-concept is the Russian word _ostranie_(sp?).
_otstraneniye?_ Basilius

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